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The world's leading search engine has begun pushing its own flight search feature ahead of other organic results. Punch in "MIA to LGA" in a Google box, and the first thing you'll see after a shaded box of sponsored search results is Big G's own comparison engine. Only later do you see third-party providers, which are naturally unhappy about that.

Although it's been lurking online since March of last year, the website Oyster Hotel Reviews has seized this moment to alert the world that it has arrived. The timing is surely not accidental: Travel review website TripAdvisor.com, a rival, is battling bad press about deficiencies in its...