Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

Kayak.com Releases Travel Search Data & Travel Index Tool

Oct 9, 2009 at 10:55am ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski

Somewhat quietly, last week Kayak posted a new feature that opens up access to their search data using Kayak Trends. A key feature of Kayak Trend data is the KAYAK Travel Index™, an a statistical model that provides a measure of travel demand from analysis of searches on KAYAK sites, and aligns that with average combined prices people select for hotel and flights. In Kayak Trends, you can get a snapshot of most popular destinations and search demand for them by day, week, month or year, as well as see a shift in seasonal trends by looking at the biggest upward and downward trends at a gla [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Search Headlines

What, Where, When: Travel & Local Search Combine @Goby.com

Sep 23, 2009 at 12:01am ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski

Coming out of (private) and into public Beta today is a new hybrid travel and local search engine, Goby.com (GO-be), a new entrant into the foray of "deep web" search technology, led by a founding team with web and search experience from Endeca (CEO Mark Watkins), Lycos (Jim Fell) and Reprise Media (CTO Vince Russo), MIT (professor Michael Stonebraker, co-founder) as well as travel distribution experience with John Walsh (World Travel Holdings.) The start-up received its funding from Flybridge Capital and Kepha Partners. Using a 3-box format for search queries, Goby's intention is to help g [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Search Headlines

Five More Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should

Jul 21, 2009 at 7:46am ET by Matt McGee

Have you ever needed to see the search results for another city -- maybe because you want to see what PPC ads are shown somewhere else? Have you ever needed to see search results from a different country, or in a different language? Maybe you're into real time search, and you'd love a place to find the latest photos and videos being shared on Twitter. Or perhaps you're planning a vacation abroad, but you're not sure when is the best time to visit Europe. It's time again for another roundup of the latest and greatest search tools and search engines, and in this article, I'll share five such [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Events Search Engines, Search Engines: Experimental, Search Engines: Meta Search Engines, Search Engines: Outside USA, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Search Engines: Video Search Engines

Kayak Says Bing Isn’t Playing Air Fair, Hakia Sees Near Mirror Image

Jun 25, 2009 at 1:52pm ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski

Kayak travel search launched a formal attack on Microsoft's Bing Travel yesterday in an article that appeared on Wired, Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us!. Apparently, Kayak's executives are more than a little steamed by the eerily similar look and feel, and even went so far as to put Microsoft on legal notice (presumably a cease & desist) to knock it off. Wired implies that Kayak is concerned about the similarities causing brand confusion with its users, and even noted an "uncomfortable" comparison in their own review of Bing, and points out that others have noticed as well. You can see f [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Travel, Search Engines: Hakia, Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Top News

Former Live Search Director Launches Oyster.com, Hotel Review Site

Jun 22, 2009 at 10:33pm ET by Elisabeth Osmeloski

In February 2008, when Vanessa Fox wrote that Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance at Microsoft Live Search (now Bing.com) was leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) for a start-up, she may not have known that he was jumping into murky waters of travel search. Today, Eytan's start-up site was unveiled - Oyster.com, a site that generates professional, verified hotel reviews. Shortly after that announcement, Oyster Hotel Reviews closed a Series A with Bain Capital and Accelerator Ventures (via TechCrunch) worth $6.4 million, to launch a start-up with his brother (Elie Seidm [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Search Engines: Travel Search Engines

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