Have some flexibility in your travel plans? Kayak now lets you search for up to 3 days before and after your desired travel dates. Test it out by clicking on the ‘My dates are flexible’ link at the bottom of the homepage.
-Read the press release which also talks about “a new Traveler Profile […]
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-Greg Sterling’s take on the deal
Marchex buys Openlist for $13m
Openlist is an incredible vertical search engine which crawls the web (limited crawler covering millions of pages) for local information (hotels, restaurants, and attractions) and aggregates this information in a highly structured manner. When I first used Openlist, […]
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I just searched for and booked a flight from SJC to LAS for eBay Live. I used Kayak, SideStep, FareChase, PriceGrabber, and Mobissimo. I chose the cheapest flight I could find. I booked through FareChase/America West.
-FareChase was the only and PriceGrabber Travel were the only travel search engines which displayed America West/USAirways […]
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In its new report (found through Marketing Pilgrim), JupiterResearch found that “only four percent of online travelers say a travel search engine impelled them to plan or purchase their most recent trip.”
David Schatsky, President of Jupiter Kagan said “Travel meta search engines are now offering expanded products and several have relationships with major distribution […]
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John Cook’s Venture Blog from the Seattle Post Intelligence gives a sneak peek at Farecast.
Farecast attempts to forecast the future of airline ticket prices and then recommend when a consumer should buy a ticket. According to the article, Farecast gets its fare pricing information from ITA Software.
Farecast was founded by Oren Etzioni, a Madrona […]
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As reported in Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch, Jobster is buying Jobby.
Check out the Jobby blog for a quick look at how the deal came together.
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Kayak.com announced it’s Series C round of financing to be used “to fund extensive offline and online marketing campaigns launching this June and for European expansion scheduled for the fall.”
Read the press release. The round was led by Accell Partners and 2 London based Accell VCs, Harry Nelis and JudyGibbons, will join Kayak’s board […]
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I love Mike Sheldon’s (Interpublic’s Deutsch/LA) response to Expedia putting it’s ad account under review.
As reported in Marketing Vox:
Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia CEO, said Expedia’s financial performance was disappointing and that he would be “focused on tactical actions - including a shift of our marketing approach - to drive improvement in our results for the balance […]
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Mobissimo’s new itinerary includes India. Today the company announced the launch of its Indian site.
From the Mobissimo blog:
Mobissimo is the first travel search engine to specifically target India, giving Indian consumers direct access to the largest selection and best travel deals available domestically and worldwide.
Mobissimo searches prices directly from 157 different travel suppliers […]
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While I’ve talked to SimplyHired a number of times, the company is definitely not the only innovative job search company. In fact, Indeed was the first of the new crop of job search companies to launch back in November 2004. Incredible to think that this market is just a year and a half […]
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