Tag Archives: Google

Google is testing Google Maps display the price - with the offerings of its major customers

via mashable.com
For a select group of users (not for me, tried habs) shows Google in its Google Map Search for hotels now offering prices. Under the name of the search results appear for form fields Anreiseatg and number of nights. Besides the hotel's name is an expandable box with prizes. In the screenshot you can see features of the [...]

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5 methods to increase revenue with social media (according to Mashable)

photo credit: Ivan Walsh
Mashable has ventured out to the field of tourism, and 5 Ways to increase revenue through the use of social media listed.
Here is the summary of comments:
First Only remaining seat sales on Twitter
Indicative of JetBlue (Cheeps) and United Airlines (Twares) is the distribution channel for social media Last minute / special offers are used. Even here it is clear that Mashable [...]

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Virtual Earth - Microsoft's search engine relies on cards

via techcrunch.com
Since yesterday there is Bing map. Bing offers many of the Google Map is very similar. Be installed to display the map needs to MS Silverlight. Differences: 1 To make the use of Photosynth by 3-D offerings. Second The Street View is not nearly as developed as in Google. Third The map [...]

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Day Five of the ten Tnooz Online Marketing Tips - Seasonality

Search seasonality can be different from your sales seasonality.
Use Google Insights to understand when volumes peak and trough search, and make sure you plan your budgets and visibility around these times.

via tnooz.com

The tips are not just related to online business application. In the real travel agent has been the very same way. Google Insight is good [...]

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Google stats and legal questions about weblogs

Google Web stats - Data Source for posts and discussions http://ff.im/-833ZB
RT @ stefan_niemeyer Law Thesis: "Weblogs - Legal analysis of a new form of communication" http://bit.ly/U0pn7
E-learning course on travel safety http://ff.im/-85nfs
Francke Foundations in Halle / Saale http://ff.im/-8518h

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Google, Reviews and the Semantic Web

photo credit: Marcin Wichary
Google now offers the opportunity to read through appropriate markup in the web page reviews in various forms and the same in the search results display.
Alex Bainbridge drew my attention to this point, many of those affected may not yet known.
Google:
When I review information is marked up in the body of a web [...]

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Google's answer to Facebook Connect

Google Sites makes it easier now Google Friend Connect to profit and to implement its features.
Google Socia Bar - a toolbar, the top or bottom of the site / page can be built.

What can you do with it:

All areas of the fold out instantly after click as a drop-down menu.
SignIn, edit their own profile and settings
Anyone who has recently [...]

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4 reasons why nothing works without UGC

User-generated content (UGC) is to travel since it is traveling there. Even the "ancient Greeks" sang their domestic fires on their incredible adventures in faraway lands.
Of course a lot has changed since. But still, the last holiday travel theme in almost every celebration / party. The Internet, with its modern tools makes it possible [...]

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