Key sentence is ""It'll blow comparison sites like Skyscanner out of the water."
That identifies the project as Google trying to takeover and develop a monopoly on another internet-based service namely price comparison websites for air travel such as Skyscanner.
They might well be using Ryanair as a launch customer and getting some development assistance for nothing, but that's as far as the relationship would ever go. To succeed the website would need to include all the principal airlines including Locos, having first persuaded them that they need to be there if they can do that.
This could be the first time in living memory that Ryanair has been used and screwed by an even more predatory outfit, as opposed to Ryanair using and screwing every business Ryanair comes into contact with.
Google's aim is market dominance to increase its profits and share value, and there is nothing good in that for customers.
Let's hope that other airlines have the balls to hold the line and tell Google to stuff its new "select and buy" website, so that this misbegotten "partnership" withers on the vine.
Unfortunately, they may not have those spherical objects.