Comments on: MBTA + Google Maps = even awesomer than advertised http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/08/03/mbta-google-maps-even-awesomer-than-advertised/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:21:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: mrz http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/08/03/mbta-google-maps-even-awesomer-than-advertised/#comment-6120 mrz Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:52:31 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=5419#comment-6120 Also, if google could get one carrier to sign up, which wouldn’t be hard (“Think of the ticket sales if we were hooked into that”), the other carriers are sure to follow (“We can’t let XYZ get more ticket sales out of google than we do.”)

I could definitely see this happening.

]]> By: slaniel http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/08/03/mbta-google-maps-even-awesomer-than-advertised/#comment-6119 slaniel Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:55:46 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=5419#comment-6119 It’s not totally clear to me that they would object to having their prices listed alongside everyone else’s. Orbitz probably had some problems getting everyone to display prices, but they did it. I think you have to look at what the alternative is. If you accept that there are going to be search engines out there that let you compare fares, it’s probably in your best interests to just do it right.

]]> By: chris r http://stevereads.com/weblog/2009/08/03/mbta-google-maps-even-awesomer-than-advertised/#comment-6118 chris r Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:55:22 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/?p=5419#comment-6118 It would be fantastic to have a large, unified travel site that disregarded systemic divisions. I know I’d use it. And I have to imagine that they’d all benefit, though I’m sure they’d all argue otherwise.

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