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The recent OpEd by EU TravelTech criticizing Google's DMA compliance (and urging fines for “self-preferencing”) contains several significant contradictions, misleading claims and conflicts of interest that undermine its credibility as an objective assessment of competition policy.
July 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Google’s new design in Europe may reinforce big intermediaries and leave independent hotels behind”

Google is offering two options, Option A (favors OTA's) and Option B (favors hotels).

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El nuevo diseño de Google en Europa podría reforzar a los grandes intermediarios y dejar atrás a los hoteles independientes - Smart Travel News
Google ha propuesto recientemente un nuevo diseño para sus resultados de búsqueda en Europa con el objetivo de cumplir con la Ley de Mercados Digitales (DMA) de la Unión Europea. Sin embargo, lejos de...
www.smarttravel.news
July 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Google Ads AI Max for Search: The Biggest Revolution in Hotel Marketing Has Arrived

www.mirai.com/blog/google-...
July 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Google’s latest move to dodge a massive EU antitrust fine? A new proposal—Option B—offering rival links below its own search boxes.

All eyes on July 7–8, when Brussels hosts the key workshop to decide its fate under the #DMA.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

#Google #Antitrust #HotelSEO #EUtech
Exclusive: Google offers new proposal to stave off EU antitrust fine, document shows
Alphabet's Google has proposed fresh changes to its search results in an attempt to fend off growing criticism from rivals, a week before a key meeting that could lead to yet another EU antitrust fine, according to a document seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Thanks to WTSPartner, @alsoasked.com, you can now monitor how often you are cited in AIOs within PAAs!

Their updated CSV exports feature includes:

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June 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Call them secondary online travel agencies (OTAs), non-major OTAs, fourth-party channels—whatever the label—they have one thing in common: They’re a headache for many hotels that are increasingly seeing their rates being undercut across the internet.

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Hotels grapple with ‘secondary OTAs’ for pricing control
There's been a “channel shift” back to the OTAs and other digital avenues, but hotels are starting to lose control of their rates.
www.phocuswire.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
SearchLabs Audio Overviews travel queries examples.

"what are the best adults only resort in cuba for couples - Google Search"

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June 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM