A random way to explore our small world – Google Flights Gets Lucky!

Google – the company which revolutionized the search industry, internet and Augmented Reality amongst a host of other fields. So is there anything they can ACTUALLY surprise us with now?

Seems like the guys at Googleplex are determined to answer that question in the affirmative!

So, the next time you’re feeling adventurous and would like to visit a completely random place on the globe, Google is happy to oblige and satiate your wanderlust with its newly inducted “I’m feeling lucky” button on its Flight Search page. In the words of Google, “It’s kind of like a travel slot machine”.

Google Flights is the company’s attempt, since 2011, to make its presence felt in the online flight booking sector as well. It aims to simplify and facilitate the purchase of airline tickets through third party suppliers by providing a list of flights while giving one a reasonable trade-off between price, duration, number of stops and sometimes other factors such as amenities and baggage fees.

Simply enter your place of origin, destination and dates. You can filter the resulting list of flights according to numerous other parameters as well, some of which are mentioned above. Last, but not the least, Google has categorically stated, for all you critics and naysayers, that the flight selection and results shall not be “influenced by any paid relations” – in lieu with their motto of “Don’t be evil”.

Whilst one may feel that you’d require oodles of cash and time to blow on this new exploratory method, Google aims to address your travel according to your budget and time too. Simply, key in a budget and time limit and watch Google do its magic as it lists all the possible new locales you can visit, given your monetary / time constraints.

One of the advantages of using Google Flights and this feature is that, while looking for some inspiration, simply click on the world map to go full-screen and view the price of going to any individual city from your current / input location, which is within your budget. Thus, you can see the many and varied cities that you can go to, photos of each city and also view how the price of travel changes according to the time of the year!

While it may seem like a crazy and far-fetched idea initially, on second thoughts, it seems like a wonderful way to discover our world – albeit in a slightly different manner.  So, what are you waiting for??!