Travel Search sites to make Google redundant
By Darren Cronian on Friday, January 5th, 2007

Kayak, the travel search engine, has not yet launched it’s hotel and car hire search, and a launch date has yet to be announced. It’s a shame, but I imagine it will give its competitors, i.e. Travel Supermarket and SideStep etc. a lead in the UK and European travel market.

Travel Search sites to make Google redundant

So what’s a ‘Travel search engine’ in simple terms? It’s a website where you can search for flights, hotels and car hire from a number of travel companies, from within one website. Travel Supermarket for example allows you to compare package holidays, hotels, flights etc. from thousands of travel companies, rather than searching for hours on the internet.

Thanks to Kevin May, at Travolution for the ‘heads up’ on the Kayak story.


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7 responses to “Travel Search sites to make Google redundant”

Darren Cronian | 5 January, 2007 at 1:46 pm

By the way, I’m joking with the title! ;)

Ashish Mohta | 5 January, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Pretty cool finding, looks like when I plan to visit any place your site I will come first.

garri | 6 January, 2007 at 4:53 pm

Joking aside Darren, there was a piece in the Time before xmas about Jimmy Wales’ new venture (founder of Wikipedia). He’s planning a search engine that will rival Google.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2517026.html

Dunno about the project name Wikiasari but he’s a man to watch.

The idea of a human edited search engine is an interesting one, a gargantuan task, but a welcome idea.

Also look out for Cha Cha, another human edited search engine. http://www.chacha.com

Interestingly, if you do a Google on ‘cha cha’ the official site doesn’t appear in the results, just a load of, to quote Jimmy Wales, useless crap. The top result is a link to a site which is ‘forbidden - access denied’ (really useful!)

Anyway, Read/Write have a good piece on Cha Cha

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/chacha_human-powered_search.php

Kevin May | 7 January, 2007 at 1:36 pm

here:

http://travolution.blogspot.com/2007/01/wikipedia-guru-and-search.html

some would argue that search needs a bit of an overhaul… especially for the travel sector.

garri | 7 January, 2007 at 2:24 pm

What the BBC article doesn’t mention is he is launching it along with Amazon.

Rohan | 7 January, 2007 at 4:51 pm

Kayak, I love it Darren, nice find.

Darren Cronian | 7 January, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Thanks Rohan.

Can’t say I found Kayak, it’s been mentioned a few times on the blog, and I’ve found it useful myself looking for the best flight deal for my future trips.

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