2025-03-28
Google rolling out AI overviews for trip planning. This slowly further erodes the already weak SEO market for players like Tripadvisor and the long tail of travel bloggers. If I want to plan a trip to Yosemite for memorial day I get an itinerary, recommendations, a map, and [image]
TechCrunch
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans
Gemini Turns Them into Maps Lists! Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Google AI Overviews Itinerary, Lens Tour Guide, Maps Screenshot & Track Prices Tom Pritchard / Tom's ...
2024-11-01
OpenAI coming for top of the funnel travel bookings one piece of the puzzle at a time [image]
Bloomberg
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google
and I'm shocked by the results Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent : OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a search engine Hayden Field / CNBC : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing wit...
2023-08-01
$UBER killing it, Q3 EBITDA guidance of $975 - $1,025m vs street at $915m. >$1B of Q2 FCF New mobility products at $8B +80% Y/Y New delivery verticals at $6B Headcount down 1% Q/Q Evaluating repurchase over next few qtrs Positive fundamental momentum across the board [image]
Wall Street Journal
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.23B, gross bookings up 16% YoY to $33.6B, and a $394M net income, up from a $2.6B loss in Q2 2022, its first profit
Ride-hailing and delivery businesses grew in the second quarter, though freight shrank — Uber Technologies posted …