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Jun. 13, 2008 at 11:00am by Greg Sterling
Travel Search Engine Kayak Brings Search And Display Together With New Ad Units
Yesterday travel search engine Kayak announced that it had built a display ad platform to leverage search queries and serve more relevant graphical ads across its network. These display units will potentially replace the text ads currently shown on search results and other pages on Kayak.com and its affiliate sites....
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Jun. 9, 2008 at 12:36am by Greg Sterling
Travel Muse Brings “Discovery” To Travel Search
The Travel category online is an example of how the Internet has made our lives both easier and more complicated. It very clearly exemplifies “the paradox of choice." Indeed, there are hundreds of travel sites that provide booking services and travel content of one sort or another. You're "empowered" with...
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May. 26, 2008 at 7:34am by Greg Sterling
Travel Appears To Be Next Up For Google
BusinessWeek writes about Google's potential plans to enter the travel arena with a specialized offering. That offering, assuming it appears, would likely include a heavy dose of video. There would also likely be a heavy helping of Maps. Interestingly, Google is pushing Maps and MyMaps today as a travel/trip planning...
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May. 14, 2008 at 9:15am by Greg Sterling
Travel Search Engine Kango Relaunches As UpTake
Does the world need more travel sites and search engines? UpTake (formerly Kango) thinks so. Travel is one of the most developed and "mature" vertical online. It's also one of the most competitive segments. However, there's still considerable frustration in doing online travel planning notwithstanding the plethora of tools and...
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Apr. 17, 2008 at 7:57pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Buys Travel Search Site Farecast
Travel search site Farecast was rumored to be a takeover target recently and the CEO has confirmed that the site has indeed been acquired by Microsoft. TechCrunch, citing John Cook at the Seattle PI, says the deal was worth something in the $100-$115 million range....
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Mar. 3, 2008 at 10:30am by Greg Sterling
InsideTrip Seeks To Add More Depth And Dimension To Travel Search
Entering the already competitive and crowded market for travel search, InsideTrip is betting it's bringing enough value to the market to gain consumer awareness and usage. The site offers a metasearch engine (like Kayak or Farechase) for airfares. But it also has compiled public data on a range of other...
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Jan. 11, 2008 at 10:05am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Moves Metasearch Engine FareChase To Travel Homepage
TechCrunch noticed that Yahoo has moved the FareChase metasearch engine to the homepage of Yahoo Travel. TechCrunch attributes this move to the recent nearly $200 million acquistion of SideStep by competitor Kayak. I've always thought that FareChase was a very strong property that wasn't being fully leveraged by Yahoo. Yahoo...
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Dec. 21, 2007 at 8:47am by Greg Sterling
Travel Search Sites Kayak And SideStep To Merge In Nearly $200 Million Deal
TechCrunch reported last night that travel meta-search site Kayak had closed a whopping $196 million round and then turned around and bought competitor SideStep for almost that same amount. The press release officially describes the transaction as a merger and both brands will apparently be preserved, but Kayak is clearly...
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Dec. 19, 2007 at 8:40am by Barry Schwartz
Need Flight Status? Google Now Provides Tracking
The Google Blog announced they have improved how they return flight status information in search results. Instead of just providing a link to get flight times, you get that information directly in the OneBox area at Google, without requiring a click to see it....
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Oct. 12, 2007 at 9:26am by Greg Sterling
Farecast Offers Hotel Search
In the context of a larger discussion of how data mining is being used by several Internet sites, Gary Price posts about the introduction of hotel search on the Farecast site. Farecast's core service has sought to save consumers money by using historical information and other data to determine whether...
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May. 9, 2007 at 9:18am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Travel Adds Personalization, New Maps
Yahoo Travel has redesigned and added a range of features, including personalization and new mapping tools to the site. It's also seeking to more deeply integrate travel properties FareChase (its fares and rates "meta search" engine) and Trip Planner (its user-generated content site) into Travel. Flickr is also well represented...
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Apr. 2, 2007 at 10:00am by Chris Linnett
Local Search: More Is Not Always Better
Recently, we've seen a deluge of forecasts about massive financial opportunities associated with the growth of local search and local advertising. Whether you’re a company in the Internet search space, a yellow-pages directory, or a niche player, it is indeed tempting to get overly focused on how to earn...
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Feb. 7, 2007 at 12:15pm by Brian Smith
SideStep Raises $15 Million
SideStep today announced that it raised $15 million in its Series C round, led by Norwest Venture Partners. Other VCs involved include Trident Capital, Leader Ventures and Saints Capital. To date, SideStep has raised aproximately $32 million. Competitor Kayak has raised $30 million....
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Feb. 1, 2007 at 9:04am by Greg Sterling
Marchex Launches Review Aggregation Feature 'Open View'
I wrote yesterday about Boorah, which is aggregating user reviews in the restaurant vertical to provide more coverage to consumers. Today, Marchex is formally launching its similar "Open View" technology on its Open List local/travel search site and its network of URL-based destinations, which have been substantially enhanced with Open...
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Jan. 22, 2007 at 1:18pm by Chris Sherman
PublicRoutes.com Adds Languages, Personalization
PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users. PublicRoutes.com...
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Jan. 22, 2007 at 9:49am by Brian Smith
Farecast Offers Insurance Policy on Airfares
Travel search engine Farecast officially launched its Fare Guard service, protecting flyers from volatile airfare prices. The service allows travelers to basically purchase an insurance policy on a flight for $10 ($3 until February 1), thus locking in the published rate....
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Jan. 19, 2007 at 6:57am by Danny Sullivan
Checking Out Allcheckin Travel Search
I'm going to Berlin to speak at a travel conference in March, which meant booking a flight. With a British Airways strike looming, I wanted an alternative to fly from my closest airport -- London Heathrow -- to Berlin. But no one but BA seems to fly to Berlin from...
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Jan. 4, 2007 at 11:48am by Brian Smith
SideStep To Add Cruise Search, The Vertical Search Opportunity
Rounding out its travel search offerings, SideStep will soon launch cruise search, powered by CruisesOnly, the premier cruise brand of Boston-based NLG. While I was surprised by this announcement as I think SideStep has a lot of other fish in the frying pan it needs to focus on, Jon Robison...
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Dec. 28, 2006 at 9:24am by Barry Schwartz
New Mobile Flight Status Tracker By FlightStats
Gary Price reports that FlightStats has added a mobile flight tracking site at http://mobile.flightstats.com/. So for all you holiday season travelers, bookmark this address on your mobile device (I did), to check flight status, departures and arrivals, flight arrivals, airline & airport information, security wait times and more....
