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Google Travel Boss Defends Lack of Progress, Deflects Criticism

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: Still from a PhoCusWright interview with Jeremy Wertheimer in August 2012.  YouTube / PhoCusWright

Skift Take

Wertheimer didn't reveal much and didn't mollify any critics but after selling his company to Google for $700 million, he doesn't have to.

Plenty of people in the travel industry are underwhelmed about the seeming lack of market clout of Google Flight Search and Google Hotel Finder, but to Jeremy Wertheimer, vice president of engineering at Google Travel, the "rates of change" are all just fine. Wertheimer, who co-founded flight shopping and pricing engine ITA Software in the early 1990s and sold it to Google as the basis for Google Flights for $700 million in 2011, is unfazed by the criticism, and speaking at the PhoCusWright conference in Hollywood, Florida, today, he argues that c

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