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by jessegavin 4136 days ago
I disagree. I spent nearly a year as a UI designer/engineer for a flight search/booking tool and evaluated all the major interfaces. The #1 killer feature google flights has which kills all other flight search tools (I have seen) is speed. They bought a company (ITA) for something close to a billion dollars which provides near realtime search results for flights.

Kayak (and others) do a good job of streaming search results, but you still have to wait seconds before you're able to make decisions.