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The law that just fined Google has been running on Booking.com since December 2024.
Booking lost the rate parity clause in December 2024, and the money moved to paid placement. Google’s ruling is heading the same way. Jul 27, 2026 by Markus Busch Brussels fined Google €890 million on Thursday, €460 million of it for putting its own Shopping, Flights and Hotels above rival services in search. Google has…
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Google’s now selling placement inside the AI answer — starting with IHG, by invitation only
Google confirmed on its Q2 earnings call that the AI answer now carries paid slots — and IHG got the first hotel seat by invitation, not the open auction anyone could bid into Jul 27, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. On Alphabet’s second-quarter earnings call, Google said its AI-powered ad system, AI Max,…
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Visual Insights Unveiled: Global Investments and Key Financial Trends
Starting August 1, “The Week in Charts” will transform into “The Chart of the Week,” delivering a singular, notable chart in the weekly newsletter to provide readers with the most compelling insights. This change aims to enhance the service’s value, ensuring subscribers receive focused and impactful data visualizations each week.
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Weekly Inspiration: Creative Brand Marketing Insights Powered by Tracksuit
The article highlights the weekly inspiration derived from creative brand marketing, facilitated by Tracksuit, a platform designed for continuous brand tracking. Although specific details like opinions, facts, dates, locations, and statistical information are not provided, the focus remains on the consistent monitoring and enhancement of brand strategies.
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This Week’s Tech Insights: Multi-Domain Entanglement, AI Regulation Strategies, Exploring Latent Space, Unlocking Claude’s Potential, and Bridging Perspectives
The article discusses several key topics, including the regulation of AI, the concept of multi-domain entanglement, and the potential of latent space as a new medium. It also highlights the development of a practical Claude Skill and offers insights from a bridge viewpoint, reflecting on the evolving landscape of technology and its implications.
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The independent wholesaler didn’t die. It became a giant.
You keep a few wholesalers in the mix so you’re not all-in on Booking. It’s the right instinct — but look hard at what those wholesalers have turned into. Jul 24, 2026 by Markus Busch Ask a hotelier whether they lean too hard on Booking and you tend to get the same answer: not really…
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The franchise agreement decides what the AI knows about your hotel
579 reviews and a 4.4 rating, built over 18 years, stayed with the brand when the hotel walked away from it. The brand owns the Google page — and the Google page is what the AI reads. Jul 24, 2026 by Markus Busch Eighteen years of guests, and then a new page. Gary Patel ran…
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The EU fined Google for burying its rivals in hotel search. The hotel was never one of them.
Brussels fined Google €460 million on Thursday for putting its own Hotels, Flights and Shopping above competing services — and on Google’s own published record, its fix for that has been to hand more of the page to comparison sites. Jul 24, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. The European Commission fined Google €890…
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The AI cares more about your eco-certificate than your guests do
Twelve models over-weight eco-certification when they pick a hotel. On September 27 the badge you wrote yourself becomes illegal — and the one that replaces it arrives with a price list. Jul 24, 2026 by Markus Busch The finding. A June audit ran twelve AI models through a designed choice — five hotels, with guest…
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US hotels have the brands, the apps and the points. The OTAs still take the booking.
Phocuswright’s new US market data puts hotels at nearly two-thirds of all OTA gross bookings — in the one country that built its entire lodging industry around brand.com Jul 24, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. Phocuswright published its US Online Travel Agency Market Essentials 2026 this week. US OTA gross bookings rose 4%…
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