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July 9, 2012 07:14 pm GMT
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Why Kayak Can Shrug Off Googles Threat For Now
For a company that bills itself as a search engine for travel, Kayak gets a fairly small slice of traffic from searches. As the company disclosed in its IPO paperwork Monday morning, about 10% of Kayak's user queries came from searches on Google, Bing and other "general search engine websites."
Though most web-based companies are at the mercy of the major search engines, Kayak's situation is even more precarious since Google and Bing have both identified travel as a major growth area. As Kayak has noted, Google's $700 million April 2011 purchase of ITA has led the company to launch an online travel search product and "hotel and flight search tools and services that directly compete wi…
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