Google Hires Team Behind Online Travel Guide Ruba
According to this blog post, Google has acquired online travel guide and community Ruba.
Google tells us that they didn't actually acquire Ruba, but the team behind Ruba will be joining the Google team to work on iGoogle and other projects.
Ruba offer users a way to visually browse through cities and their attractions around the world, offering photo-rich guides and an emphasis on making it easy to quickly discover new locations. The site is headed by Mike Cassidy, who has founded a number of successful companies, including Xfire, which sold to Viacom in 2006 for $102 million.
Google has been reportedly making a significant move to enter the online travel business, integrating hotel links into Maps and listing hotels with room rates. The search giant is also supposedly in talks to buy fare shopping software ITA software, according to the USA Today.
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