Search Engines Set To Become Travel Agents | guardian.co.uk
We use them to find our web pages, to scour for recipes and to hunt for music and lyrics, but as early as next year the search engine could also become our first port of call for finding and booking our holidays. Amid recent reports that demand for independently booked travel is set to soar by 80% in the next five years, both Yahoo! and AOL announced last week that they were ramping-up their travel offerings and setting up shop as online travel agents.