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Old Jul 5, 2024 | 8:07 am
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Originally Posted by Yetak
I’ve always wondered how smart the algorithms are. If I excessively checked the price of a route ( say 2 or 3 times a day for several weeks) could that effect the pricing? To be clear I mean checking the same flight on the same date every time.
I think that's in the butterfly effect in Chaos Theory - seemingly there, easily misunderstood, impossible to verify. There are enough automated bots out there to deluge that impact.
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