Research firm BrandVerity's followup study on pay-per-click advertising finds that hotels could be losing direct bookings because a lot of brand ads for properties on search engines are taken by the online travel agencies like Travelocity and Hotels.com. The study found that trademark use by third-party advertisers was less common on Google and Google Mobile but frequent on Bing, Yahoo and AOL.
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