Google is buying Frommer's from publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. JWB -0.52% The purchase price wasn't disclosed and the deal hasn't yet closed. People with knowledge of the deal said it is worth less than $66 million, meaning it wouldn't trigger an automatic review by antitrust authorities.

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So $66m is the trigger?

Technically, $66.6 million is the trigger.

They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill The Beast.

Any predictions on what the will/will not do with it and whether that will ever come to fruition/really work?

Blend it with Zagats and Maps and other Google Local offerings.

For use both in Web search and on mobile devices.

Complete with apps like Triposo: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/triposo-new-ios-apps/ Offer native app pre-installed on Android phones. Google Travel, maybe?

David, that's a good point:

Though the content from Frommer’s could eventually be used in Google travel search — which is built on flight search technology from ITA Software, the company that Google bought last year — it will now be used for Google’s local search.

Source: New York Times