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Piggybacking on Paid Search angers major Travel advertisers

Major travel and hospitality companies have expressed anger over Search Giant Google's stance on Piggybacking. A worrying issue for most big-brand search advertisers, a recent article on the Wall Street Journal "Google Search Ads Rile Its Big Customers" explains it:
Tensions over piggybacking have been simmering for a couple of years. Companies such as Marriott International Inc., InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and Northwest Airlines Corp. say the use of their names and slogans in the text of other companies' search ads confuses potential customers and increases their cost of doing business. They are particularly upset with Google, which is the dominant player in the search business.



Read the original article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121245191440539815.html

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