I usually find hunting for flights fun, but these days it can quickly take a turn for the worse when I feel like I’m playing cat and mouse with Google’s algorithm. Turn the VPN on. Use a private window. Switch between my MacBook and iPhone. My strategy to “trick” the algorithm so that it doesn’t hike up the cost of the flight before I book it, often falls short.
Google Flights is my favorite booking platform, so I wondered if Google’s AI, Gemini, could help me save money on a future flight. Could this be the most underrated travel hack for 2025? With the price of flights these days, I sure hoped so.
Gemini was released in March 2023 (when it was known, briefly, as Bard) and is one of the main artificial intelligence models on the…































