Google Now Guarantees Some Flight Prices Or Your Money Back

For flights, Google already showed you whether the flight price you were looking at was high, low, or typical compared to historical prices. Now it's going a step further by putting a guarantee on those predictions. Android Police reports: Now, whenever Google thinks a flight is priced as low as it's going to go, it will put a "Price Guarantee" badge beside the price indicating it doesn't think that price will drop any further. If you decide to book a flight with a price guarantee through Google and the price does go down, the company will reimburse you for the difference in price via Google Pay similar to the promotion it ran in 2019. The price guarantee was announced in a blog post today alongside new features for researching hotels.

"Now when you search for a hotel on mobile, you'll be able to swipe through full-screen images of the hotel similar to how you might view a story on Instagram," reports Android Police. "From that photo page, you can also quickly tap into reviews to see if a property is as good as it looks and learn more about the area where a potential hotel is located. There's also a link to the hotel's website right on the page when you're ready to book."

Embrace - Extend

[Malays2 bowman]

..Extinguish?

Is "missing- must include" Google using the old Micro$oft tactics?

Re: Embrace - Extend

[Malays2 bowman]

by that meaning buying out or putting out of business web companies that have been doing bargain hunting services for years.

Re:

[cstacy]

by that meaning buying out or putting out of business web companies that have been doing bargain hunting services for years.

The main thing Google acquired was Orbitz, the "AI" based travel system invented by a little spin-off from the MIT AI Lab. This was some decades ago, and Google bought them fairly early on. This is the (Lisp, by the way) technology that powers Google's travel reservation system. (The original technology was also secretly used by several other companies and airlines, before Google bought the company out.) I haven't looked at Google lately to see if the Orbitz brand and user interface still exists, but it's b

Google Travel Puts and Calls?

[Bob_Who]

Pretty soon they'll have a futures market with crypto where speculators can offer cruises to the moon at a discount. Or maybe they can be a search engine again....nah.

Financing

[TwistedGreen]

I get it, so this is like a type of purchase protection/insurance you'd get with a credit card... if you use Google Pay. More evidence that all big companies eventually just turn into financing companies, while their core business rots away.

US only

[sleschdott]

Ahhh, I get it. Another 4% launch. :-/

Self-fulfilling prophecy

[Ichijo]

They promise to refund you the difference if the price of the flight goes down, attracting more people to take that flight and virtually ensuring that the price won't go down. Crafty.