tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29875741.post3009897131811051882..comments2024-03-09T20:40:14.660+11:00Comments on The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel: "Worldspan+Travelport=Gal-World" - how a search term became a companyTim Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05383381229302650553noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29875741.post-64608123098018301192006-12-08T22:40:00.000+11:002006-12-08T22:40:00.000+11:00Thanks so much for the reference to our newsletter...Thanks so much for the reference to our newsletter, TheBeat.travel, but I must point out that it is not a blog. Not that there's anything wrong with blogs--in fact our company publishes two "slogs," or NewsLogs at management.travel and thetransnational.travel.<br /><br />This post is not only self-promotional. If The Beat were a blog, more people would have been tipped to this news about Worldspan-Travelport way back on Nov. 14. But because it is not a publicly accessible blog, only the 4,500 readers whose 200 companies pay for a subscription to The Beat heard the deal was going down that early.<br /><br />As such, I must say with all humility that for travel professionals, while it may have been "a strange rumour" at first, the information became a column before it hit the blogs. Then it was announced.<br /><br />Fortunately or otherwise, Google does not (yet) "know everything."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com