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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.

Online travel agents are holding up through the recession on business and leisure travel. A new report from research firm PhoCusWright and Compete.com, travel websites showed increases in both monthly traffic and sales conversions for the second quarter of 2009 relative to previous...