<story><title>Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like &quot;What&apos;s the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August&quot; are impossible. I understand it&apos;s a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can&apos;t I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to save a couple hundred bucks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/taking-off-with-ita.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinko</author><text>ITA Software is one of the few remaining &quot;sleeper&quot; sites I use constantly but few people have heard of.&lt;p&gt;Its routing language and &quot;graphical&quot; view of flight times (which have each been there for what, 7 or 8 years?) are still light years ahead of anything else on the web in terms of travel search.&lt;p&gt;Let&apos;s just hope Google doesn&apos;t mess it up somehow.</text></comment>