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diogenescynic on Oct 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Akamai close to being acquired by Google

Remember Google acquired ITA Software-- it was used by all the sites like Kayak/Bing and the others (American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Orbitz) who buy traffic from Google. Google bought Picnik because Flickr used it. Google bought Global IP Solutions used by Yahoo, AOL, WebEx and Lotus.

It seems like these are clearly anti-competitive moves meant to put their competitors at their mercy.

megablast on Oct 13, 2011 [–]

You could see where Google would use ITA, and it made sense. Search engines are turning into more than just listing websites.

With Akamai, not so much.

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