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Google explores sale of Zagat
- adventured 9y agoTheir diversion into products like Zagat, is a huge invition to anti-trust scrutiny, while providing barely any business benefit versus their core. They made the same mistake most platform tech monopolies do, they started eating the ecosystem they were providing food for. Microsoft did the same thing, aggressively, for 10-15 years, during the peak of the Windows will rule the world era. Their behavior on that front only slowed down once the seriousness of the anti-trust actions became clear. Google will likely begin moving about the landscape much more carefully, ditching small businesses that make them look particularly bad as a monopoly, due to the anti-trust hammers being swung around that are trying to land on them.
- tyingq 9y agoThis article does a good job of outlining the dance they are doing in the travel space:https://skift.com/2016/11/01/googles-travel-business-is-already-twice-the-size-of-expedias/ https://skift.com/2016/11/01/googles-travel-business-is-alre... Doesn't mention ITA, though, one of their larger acquisitions in travel.
- touristtam 9y agoThanks, I wasn't aware of that. Follow up article about ITA at google: https://skift.com/2017/11/01/google-to-retire-ita-software-flight-search-engine-for-small-companies/ https://skift.com/2017/11/01/google-to-retire-ita-software-f...
- exolymph 9y agoTIL that Google owns Zagat