Metasearch

PhocusWire's in-depth coverage of the metasearch sector, featuring news, analysis, interviews, research and more on the brands and their strategies, executives and positions in the market.

Those Kayak TV ads in full - might need a second viewing
By Kevin May | November 2, 2009
Metasearch engine Kayak clearly sees its new TV ads as a pretty big step for the company, as Tnooz outlined last week. So much so that CEO Steve Hafner felt sufficiently moved to comment on our original... Read More
Halloween Special: Time to be scared - Troogle by Google only a few clicks away
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Halloween Special: Time to be scared - Troogle by Google only a few clicks away
By Kevin May | October 30, 2009
Google has spent the best part of almost its entire existence denying the concept of Troogle - a travel vertical aggregating its existing and related content with organic search and metasearch. The... Read More
Travelzoo has high hopes for Fly.com and international expansion
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Travelzoo has high hopes for Fly.com and international expansion
By Dennis Schaal | October 30, 2009
Two key elements of Travelzoo's focus for 2010 are turning red ink into black in Europe, and increasing Fly.com's audience and revenue. Travelzoo makes money in North America, where it is working on... Read More
Sign of the Times for Kayak as it braces itself for branding WIN or marketing FAIL
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Sign of the Times for Kayak as it braces itself for branding WIN or marketing FAIL
By Kevin May | October 29, 2009
Word reaches us that Kayak's first ever national US television advertising campaign will air this weekend. The metasearch giant will simultaneously launch an outdoor schedule to feature in such exotic... Read More
Twitter, Google and Bing - The Perfect Storm of travel search
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Twitter, Google and Bing - The Perfect Storm of travel search
By Kevin May | October 22, 2009
Travel companies that dismissed micro-blogging service Twitter ("Why do I want to know if someone is eating a bagel or not?") may well be rethinking their strategy this morning. News initially from... Read More
Cheapflights tweaks search tools, adds calendar function
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Cheapflights tweaks search tools, adds calendar function
By Kevin May | October 9, 2009
Some brief news this week from price comparison site Cheapflights as it plays around with some of the functionality it introduced at its big relaunch in the summer of 2008. The redesign from August of... Read More
ITA Software powers air-shopping on Southwest Airlines website
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ITA Software powers air-shopping on Southwest Airlines website
By Dennis Schaal | October 8, 2009
This just in: ITA Software picked up another airline customer for its QPX airfare pricing and shopping system: Southwest Airlines. The press release hasn't dropped yet, but the functionality is now live... Read More
TripAdvisor adds flight metasearch to UK site
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TripAdvisor adds flight metasearch to UK site
By Kevin May | October 6, 2009
Launched quietly last night, but press released this morning, TripAdvisor has finally launched its flight metasearch product in the UK. The service is a like-for-like copy of the US product which... Read More
Kayak gets trendy - nothing to do with fashion
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Kayak gets trendy - nothing to do with fashion
By Kevin May | October 5, 2009
Farecast, Farecompare and a number of other travel sites made the idea of data crunching at the front end extremely popular with users. Such scientific chores such as displaying when is typically the... Read More
Kayak sets sights on TripIt-Dopplr clan with its own trip planner
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Kayak sets sights on TripIt-Dopplr clan with its own trip planner
By Dennis Schaal | October 1, 2009
Kayak undoubtedly has an unwelcome surprise for TripIt, Dopplr, Traxo and Sabre’s TripCase, among other contenders. That’s because Kayak has quietly introduced in beta Kayak Trips, an itinerary-sharing... Read More
Skyscanner brings in marketing guru, ponders new strategy for global reach
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Skyscanner brings in marketing guru, ponders new strategy for global reach
By Kevin May | October 1, 2009
European - and increasingly global - metasearch engine Skyscanner has hired one of the UK's current dot-com darlings to become a non-executive director of the business. But Jason Stockwood's appointment... Read More
Why TechCrunch is wrong about Google Sidewiki
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Why TechCrunch is wrong about Google Sidewiki
By Dennis Schaal | September 28, 2009
The just-launched Google Sidewiki is informative and pretty fun to play with even as it tends to disintermediate website publishers and fragments comments about their content. TechCrunch's Michael... Read More
Zoombu aims for US market mid-2010, admits pivotal period ahead
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Zoombu aims for US market mid-2010, admits pivotal period ahead
By Kevin May | September 7, 2009
Alt-meta search shop Zoombu has managed to attract a fair amount of positive vibes in recent months, despite not throwing open its front door to the wider consumer web community. The Oxford, UK-based... Read More
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