Google Is Killing Booking and Review Sites

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For two decades, travel fare aggregators and booking sites rode roughshod over traditional travel agencies as the world moved online. Paid reviewers and classified ads, too, got shoved aside by sites like Yelp and Angie’s List. Crowdsourced opinions from the masses rendered old gatekeepers irrelevant.

But the world moves quickly, and now the TripAdvisors, Expedias, Yelps, and Angie’s Lists…