Did I mistakingly land on Mashable or TechCrunch?

Stupid title, especially considering today’s job climate with so many people out of work and having financial hardships. I didn’t bother to read the article, but did read a few of the comments and would agree that you should screen your guest writers more closely, or MORE PREFERABLY, not have them at all. I’ve noticed that the articles I actually read and get good information from are from your permanent staff.

This article title took away some of your site’s credibility to me. The credibility that you’ve gained over the past 6 months after I stopped reading Mashable and TechCrunch.

The way I see it, nobody agrees with you.

You might want to stick to selling hotel software and give up the travel industry editorial writing gig. Nobody’s buying what you’re selling here.

My colleague just sent me a link to a similar article about your hypothesis at Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/2011/09/23/news/some-rumors-die-hard-will-google-become-an-online-travel-agency-video/. It looks like nobody was impressed with your opinion there either. And that’s a travel tech only blog.

Word of advice: You might want to quit while you’re ahead.

What’s you’re agenda anyway? Why so persistent to sell this stuff? Very weird.

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”

Are you under the impression that Google doesn’t “think only about profit” too? If so, you might want to look a little closer at the facts on that one.

Google is like any other business in their desire to maximize their profits, except that they have a much larger profile with even more to lose than smaller businesses.

If Google uses their dominant position in the search business to direct traffic to their potential OTA business, as this article (foolishly) speculates on, they will eventually have a monopoly in travel as well. That would certainly not be in the best interest of travel businesses or consumers. You could think of them as the “OPEC” of the travel industry… and we all know how that has worked out for American consumers.

Everybody would be at the mercy of Google’s obligation to maximize profits. Google becoming an OTA would be THE MOST ANTI-COMPETITIVE event in the history of travel. Of course, they would use their monopoly to extract as much revenue out of every business, and consumer, that they can. It’s just their corporate nature.

You could think of Google as a toll bridge. If you want to enter, or cross the bridge, to the Internet you must first pay Google a toll.

Google has been savvy by convincing consumers that they receive all these wonderful things from Google for free. In actuality, the goods and services that we all buy end up being more expensive because the businesses we buy things from have to pay Google a marketing “tariff” to be apart of the e-commerce game. Indirectly, that ends up being a hidden tax that all consumers must pay when buying most things these days.

Travel is HUGE business, it is the largest industry in the world. The last thing the world wants, or would allow, is Google getting their greedy little hands on even more of the travel pie.

Google, stick to search and a couple things that compliment that core business. STOP TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU SHOULD, OR CAN. IT TURNS YOU INTO SOMETHING THAT YOU PROCLAIM YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE… DISGUSTINGLY “EVIL”!!!

Isn’t a company that’s worth $200 BILLION and built in just a dozen years enough? Think it’s time for Larry and Sergey to retire to a beach somewhere and build a software program that counts your money… enough already!

It’s all getting a bit sickening.