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<dc:creator>erick schonfeld</dc:creator>
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<description><![cdata[after years of ceding the upper hand in online
travel to booking sites like kayak and orbitz, american airlines is about to fight
back. according to the ceo of a competing travel site, american airlines is about
to pull its airline listings out of kayak and is considering doing the same with
orbitz. if [...]]]></description>

<content:encoded><![cdata[<p><a
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content/uploads/2008/07/american-airlines.png" alt="" title="american-airlines"
class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-20360" /></a>after years of ceding the upper
hand in online travel to booking sites like <a href="http://www.kayak.com/"
onclick="javascript:pagetracker._trackpageview
('/outbound/www.kayak.com');">kayak</a> and orbitz, american airlines is about to
fight back. according to the ceo of a competing travel site, american airlines is
about to pull its airline listings out of kayak and is considering doing the same
with orbitz. if it does so, other airlines such as continental and northwest may
follow suit.</p>
<p>airlines don&#8217;t like the booking sites because they have to pay them a
referral fee for every ticket they sell, as opposed to capturing the full fare
when travelers book on their individual sites. even though that only amounts to a
few dollars per ticket, every dollar counts to the troubled airlines—especially
now with fuel prices going sky-high and the <a
href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d818ef56-58e1-11dd-a093-000077b07658.html"
onclick="javascript:pagetracker._trackpageview ('/outbound/www.ft.com');">consumer
spending going down.</a> </p>
<p>american airlines has a particular beef with kayak because it tends to show aa
flights through its partnership with orbitz instead of directly from american.
that means american has to pay a double tax, once to kayak and once to orbitz.
(the deal between kayak and orbitz, charges the competing ceo, was meant to drive
up traffic numbers on kayak as it was potentially seeking an ipo <a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/20/breaking-kayak-raises-196-million-buys-
rival-sidestep/">prior to raising $200 million</a> instead last december). </p>
<p>the decision to sever ties with kayak supposedly has already been made. the
only question is whether orbitz can salvage its relationship with the airline.
this should strengthen competing travel sites, especially newer ones that link
directly to the airlines like <a href="http://www.mobissimo.com/"
onclick="javascript:pagetracker._trackpageview
('/outbound/www.mobissimo.com');">mobissimo</a> and <a
href="http://www.yapta.com/" onclick="javascript:pagetracker._trackpageview
('/outbound/www.yapta.com');">yapta</a>.</p>
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<title>google launches knol, the monetizable wikipedia</title>
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today google has launched knol, its wikipedia alternative that holds authors
accountable for the articles they write. each article is created by a team of
authors who receive attribution, and are allowed to take part in a rev-share for
adsense ads on their page. other users can submit changes, but they have to
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<p>today google has <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080723/p71#a080723p71"
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('/outbound/www.techmeme.com');">launched</a> <a href="http://knol.google.com/k#"
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('/outbound/knol.google.com');">knol</a>, its wikipedia alternative that holds
authors accountable for the articles they write. each article is created by a
team of authors who receive attribution, and are allowed to take part in a rev-
share for adsense ads on their page. other users can submit changes, but they
have to be approved by the article&#8217;s original authors before they go live on
the site (it&#8217;s basically a moderated wikipedia).</p>