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MEDIA WATCH: Press Frenzy On Search

The initial coverage of Internet portals attempting to secure a place in online travel, particularly America Online's investment in screen-scraper Kayak, was so bad that The Beat was going to let it go as too easy a target. However, today the Financial Times took bandwagoning over the top in an unusual display of weakness for the normally respectable British paper.

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