Sitting across the table from me, on the seventh floor of a brick building near Kendall Square, is the head of Google travel. He controls where the big, bad Internet giant (NASDAQ: GOOG) will go in the vast competitive landscape of flight and hotel search, airline reservation systems, relationships with online travel agencies, and so on. So what to ask him, and where to begin?
How about, what is Google’s big vision for travel?
“We’re kind of low-key. You know, let the product launches speak, rather than saying, ‘It’s going to be like this.’ No, no. ‘Here’s this thing we built—try it.’ That’s kind of the favored locution.”
