On a recent earnings call,
Mark Okerstrom, who joined Expedia as CEO and president last
summer, said, «Over the long term, we have got to
be mindful, and we always
are mindful,
of the incredible market power that Google has,» noting the importance
of making sure Expedia's own products
are credible and
wide - reaching and that its user experiences
are localized.
Two
summers back, here within view
of Colorado Springs» Waldo Canyon conflagration, I vividly recall some details: a) a hoisted ember astonishingly re-igniting things across a mile
wide mountain lake, breaching the NE perimeter; b) our relative humidity, the day
of the blaze,
was so low the
am weatherman uttering «you night as well say we have none;» c) the flown - in Commander, on camera and perhaps the best mind in all the world on matters such, describing never before witnessed probabilities for live ember re-ignitions, as «perhaps two out
of three;» & d) that sad day
's all - time record setting
mark of 101 F., here @ 6,500 feet + elevations, in that astonishing
summer where lower - 48 averages jumped by more than a single degree Fahrenheit in one realm - altering excursion.