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ZapTravel attempts semantic travel metasearch, with activities upfront
By Sean O'Neil
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April 2, 2013
Its elevator pitch is that it's "a smart "Kayak" for tailored deals when you don't know where or when you want to go."
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Expedia starts testing natural language travel search Big Data-style
By Kevin May
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January 3, 2013
It's not just startups trying to capture the mood for developing natural language and semantic search in travel - Expedia is quietly working on its own platform.
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For the sake of innovation in the travel industry, it is time to unleash the (Big) data
By Valyn Perini
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November 15, 2012
Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing - even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago.
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CheapAir unveils semantic search for booking flights with natural language queries
By Sean O'Neil
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September 28, 2012
CheapAir.com has begun beta-testing a semantic search tool that allows users to pose natural language flight queries with airport codes and dates in various formats.
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Hopper nears launch with additional $12M in funding
By Nick Vivion
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August 15, 2012
Travel search startup Hopper has announced an additional $12 million investment round led by OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of Canada's largest pension funds.
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Big Data and the infinite possibilities for the travel industry
By Alex Kremer
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January 4, 2012
Similar to most up-and-coming technologies, there is much confusion as to what something like Big Data really means and how it can help make the customer experience better and lead to more sales.
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Big Data: Bringing the magic back to travel technology
By Frederic Lalonde
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September 20, 2011
Last week I was invited to speak on a panel at the Boston THack, Tnooz's event for developers and engineers. The topic was innovation in travel technology.
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Travel technology shakedown - are APIs evil and is XML dead?
By Dennis Schaal
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September 15, 2011
Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as "broken" is probably not going to take many aback.
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Hopper aims to inspire with $8M in funding and 600 servers
By Dennis Schaal
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August 22, 2011
With $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, travel startup Hopper hopes to continue building its own servers and to bridge the travel inspiration gap.
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Hopper ready to unleash full text travel search system
By Dennis Schaal
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March 14, 2011
If the future of travel search is something like Hopper, and if Google has something like this in mind for its ITA Software acquisition, then opponents of the deal may have more to worry about than they...
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