Google Flight Search Not a Monopolist Move

Just in case you missed it, this new tool came on the scene about four months ago as the first fruit of the search giant’s purchase of travel software company ITA. At the time Google acquired ITA, the US Department of Justice required it to develop and license travel software, to establish internal firewall procedures and to continue software research and development in order to protect competition for airfare comparison and booking websites and ensure those websites using ITA’s software will be able to power their websites to compete against any airfare website Google may introduce. If yo…