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Internet giant Google has launched a flight search tool in a potential challenge to online travel services.Flight Search is the first travel product from Google since its US$700 million acquisition of ITA Software earlier this year."Since then, our engineering teams have been working closely together to build new travel tools ...

Google's entry into the online travel sector was cleared for takeoff as the US Justice Department gave the green light to its US$700-million purchase of flight data company ITA Software.The Justice Department's anti-trust division, however, extracted a number of concessions from Google and imposed conditions on the internet search giant ...