16 June 2014

Feeling Lucky in Google Flight Search



A few days ago, Google Flight Search added some really cool features that help you find destinations you may enjoy. Pick one or more airports and Google shows a list of recommendations.






You can expand the map and "enter a full-screen exploring experience".






There's an "I'm feeling lucky" button that picks a destination for you. You can restrict the results, depending on your preferences. Choose the number of stops, a price range, an airline, times and duration. Click "I'm feeling lucky" again to see a different destination that matches your filters. Google shows photos for each city and helps you find the best dates for your trip.






Google Flight Search now lets you enter the name of a continent (South America) or a region (Central Africa) and shows a list of popular destinations.











Startup Tips From a Former Googler



Thomas Korte worked at Google for almost 9 years and he's now running AngelPad, a startup incubator. Thomas shared some of the things he learned at Google and could be useful for a startup:






* hire great people

* hire for the company, not for the job

* ask "why not?" instead of "why?"

* use data, not opinions

* put users first, money last

* share company information with employees

* build a culture that lasts

* give a license to dream (Google's 20% time - the permission from the company

to do things that are outside the normal scope of what you are doing)

* ask for forgiveness, not for permission (Google Books started as a service for scanning catalogs and Google didn't ask for permission to scan them).