Google shuts down ITA Needlebase
Jan 20, 2012 | 9:00 pm
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Google shuts down ITA Needlebase
Google has announced to shut down ITA software's Needlebase, effective June 1st. Will that inhibit/destroy the ITA matrix as well? I LOVE that flight search engine and never seen anything like it elsewhere.
Jan 21, 2012 | 6:20 pm
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Jan 22, 2012 | 2:53 pm
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From what I know - and I'm far from expert - a number of the Needlebase capabilities effectively "compete" against Google's core products. I suspect they're incompatible, and I suspect Google has enough invested their core that there's no point in continuing to develop this. Much better to drive folks to Google's other tools.
Whilst I'd stop short of calling Google "evil", I would say that they're not exactly Snow White, either.
Whilst I'd stop short of calling Google "evil", I would say that they're not exactly Snow White, either.