brings several different products to the table, including travel recommendations, deals, destination guides, sharable trip planners, FareChase, and several paths to booking travel online. On top of the online travel industry growing at a rate of 20...
I texted 'los altos weather' to 92466 and now just reply to the message every day to get an updated forecast.Other notable or new Shortcuts that Mihir discussed:Flight and hotel comparisons which work off of Yahoo FareChase.
Yahoo travel properties and content are a bit of a crazy quilt right now, with video, FareChase metasearch, its main travel property, Trip Planner (which, as I mentioned, is especially valuable) and Answers.
Greg Johnson was formerly a logistics executive at FedEx, and the Chairman, Trey Urbahn, was former CEO of both Priceline and FareChase. Can't afford your own private jet, like the the Google cofounders own, but like the idea of flying privately?
At this point, high booking fees are already a thing of the past for many consumers who use the travel search engines (SideStep, Kayak, Mobissimo, FareChase, etc). Farecast has developed the latest travel search engine (similar to Kayak, Mobissimo...
There's no mashup between the map on a city page (here's New York City) and attractions or hotels as Farechase and Kayak provide. The battle of features in travel search continues with SideStep launching Travel Guides Beta.
I agree with David, that meta search engines are poised to grow, but of the deals mentioned above, I only think Farechase really benefits. There's potential for both these relationships to develop into something more meaningful for all parties...
s travel metasearch site FareChase or its community travel site Trip Planner produce much more useful results at this point, as do sites like Openlist or TripAdvisor. And while everything about Co-op has been officially qualified as a work in...
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo took its FareChase travel service out of beta, added a link to the service on its home page and is now integrating travel search results in main web search results. FareChase today gets scant traffic compared to major...
Although FareChase is web giant Yahoo's travel contender, it's nonetheless a relatively small player in the online travel search space. Now that FareChase is out of beta, though, the service could very quickly become a strong presence and...
Trip Planner (will it mix this with the new Farechase? Internet Brands, home to Cars Direct, Autos.com and other sites in the real estate and travel space, is bringing aboard Wikitravel and World66, two collaborative Wiki sites that seek to be...
Yahoo's Farechase Adds Features - Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is "generally available," with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web search, a social search tool called Trip Planner that enables...
Yahoo Travel, FareChase, and APIs. Cre8asite Forums It's time to trot out my favorite Peter Drucker quote again, 'Help is defined by the recipient'. I've never had any luck in telling companies even about the most damaging problems with their...
Farechase Adds Features Today's search podcast covers Yahoo Maps getting satellite views, Microsoft getting academic search; Google charging for commercial API use; Google defending its China move and getting a new Chinese name and more!
Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is "generally available," with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web search, a social search tool called Trip Planner that enables users to create, tag, share and print...
Consumer Reports Looks at Travel Search Meta Engines in New Study - Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak, Mobissimo, and Yahoo FareChase perform.
Consumer Reports Looks at Travel Search Meta Engines in New Study - Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak, Mobissimo, and Yahoo FareChase perform.
Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak, Mobissimo, and Yahoo FareChase perform. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our...
Consumer Reports/Consumer Web Watch has published a new study that looks at how 11 travel search meta engines and aggregators like Kayak, Mobissimo, and Yahoo FareChase perform. Yahoo FareChase. The full text of the 29 page report (PDF) is...
The story also revisits some other interesting meta search cases and disputes, such as AA versus FareChase. Craigslist targets Oodle for 'scraping' its listings at the San Jose Mercury News looks at why Craiglist asked Oodle to stop scraping its...
