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Old Feb 7, 2019 | 1:22 pm
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Originally Posted by MaxVO
Actually there is a reason, and GF now discloses it in every search result -- they are being compensated by travel providers.
If travelers were GF's paying customers, they would be doing what's good for the travelers.
Well, Google wants to limit the ways pax can find a better deal and hope they just click on whatever they are being served? Fair enough, it's a business after all.

But why they cannot do it in an efficient way?... Mobile version takes forever to load, all the colours and pictures take a third of the screen, everything moves while your're selecting your flights so often you're clicking on something you did not intend... and God forbid you accidently click on "show longer or more expensive flights" without applying any filters... You may as well close your browser and start over, it will be quicker. Not sure how any of this benefits anyone?

I've stopped using GF some time ago, and after checking it back again recently the good news is that after all the "enhancements" that devasted this tool, it now seems that it has been left alone. Who knows, perhaps Google's "continious improvement team" moved onto another victim.
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