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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This list has some issues, Booking.com is Dutch and Philips' Consumer division is just a name that whitelabels other companies products and is owned by a Chinese investment company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Booking is 100% owned by Priceline (renamed Booking Holdings). They only paid $113M for the company in 2005. That's a damn steal.

The other travel "alternatives" are either owned by Expedia, majority stock holders by Expedia, or just act as a front end search for Expedia and VRBO. It's honestly ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Booking.com is owned by an American company though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, Ecosia and Qwant rely on Bing for their search results I believe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

or Google, but they are working together on their own search engine from what I heard