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[–] I_poop_from_there@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days 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.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago

Booking.com is owned by an American company though

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

Interesting, didn't know this. Thanks for pointing it out.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

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