Google Hotel Finder has added a new filter — maximum travel time from a tourist attraction, business meeting or other point of interest.
Leveraging data about 500 global markets from the transportation systems in Google Transit, Google Hotel Finder now populates hotel results based on a 20-minute default distance from a point of interest.
For example, if you input Buckingham Palace into the Google Hotel Finder search box, it will populate hotel results with those properties within a 20-minute transit ride from the tourist attraction.
Read full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2012/01/20/news/google-hotel-finder-distances-itself-from-hipmunk-with-transit-data/
