Google Launches Hotel Search Tool With Room Price Data (smo.infinigraph.com)

Direct link: http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/

I'm interested to see that they do historical rate comparisons. I thought about implementing a hotel rate searcher which flagged deals that are better than historical prices, but was put off when I saw Bing held a patent related to their Rate Indicator: http://www.bing.com/travel/about/ourTechnology.do?FORM=TRABV...

Edit: it looks like Bing's patent relates to predicting future prices (when will be the best time to buy).