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VIDEO: Kayak on the future of meta, Google and the limitations of voice search
By Mitra Sorrells
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December 7, 2018
By some measures it’s been a tough year for traditional metasearch players, including Kayak.
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VIDEO: Booking Holdings on Google, complacency, ambitions and the entire trip
By Linda Fox
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November 16, 2018
A string of international acquisitions and investments (plus a new-ish name) to reflect on a global position has the industry speculating about what else lies ahead for the former Priceline Group.
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Booking Holdings reports 200M room nights milestone during upbeat Q3 earnings
By Mitra Sorrells
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November 6, 2018
Booking Holdings saw an acceleration in the rate of its room night growth in the third quarter of 2018, exceeding the high end of its guidance, driven by a delayed summer travel peak and improved...
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Metasearch can survive and thrive (with some tweaks along the way)
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October 31, 2018
We now admit to starting our theme month in October pondering how much discussion there was to be had around metasearch in travel.
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It's the end of the hotel metasearch model as we know it
By Max Starkov - HEBS Digital
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October 30, 2018
The very promise to compare rates on hundreds of sites for the same hotel is what makes hotel metasearch inherently flawed.
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The metasearch model, part 4: Startup space
By Mitra Sorrells
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October 29, 2018
Compared to other aspects of travel, metasearch has not seen as much activity from startups. For our final piece in this series, we explore the question of why, with insights from a venture...
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Kayak adds flight amenities data from Quicket
By Marisa Garcia
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October 17, 2018
Kayak has announced a new partnership with quicket.io which will make flight amenities data available to customers on flight search, across all the metas which fall under Booking Holdings' Kayak unit.
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The metasearch model, part 2: The transition to meta-book
By Mitra Sorrells
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October 15, 2018
In the early days of metasearch, roughly the first decade of the 21st century, the model was strictly one of price comparison and referral.
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Kayak adds AR-powered bag measurement tool, Siri Shortcuts to mobile app
By Mitra Sorrells
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September 21, 2018
Kayak wants to help travelers have confidence their carry-on bags meet airline restrictions.
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Google breathes down the neck of Kayak in clicks sent to airlines
By Kevin May
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September 5, 2018
Google is sending almost equal levels of traffic to airline websites as Kayak, following a massive increase for the search giant over the course of the last 12 months.
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In the green room at Phocuswright with... Steve Hafner
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August 28, 2018
Smart and never short of an opinion or two (or ten), Kayak's leader since the outset features in an executive interview at The Phocuswright Conference 2018.
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Booking Holdings closely monitoring paid channels as it builds direct strategy
By Linda Fox
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August 9, 2018
Following the release of its Q2 financials, Booking Holdings says it's continuing its strategy of building its direct business as well as a wider travel offering.
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Surveying the travel startup landscape, part 1: The investors’ perspective
By Mitra Sorrells
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August 7, 2018
This month we're digging into the topic of startups, aiming to understand the challenges and opportunities from the perspective of various players in the field, beginning with insights from venture...
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Travel and the complex world of native comparison search
By Brett Tabano - MediaAlpha
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August 2, 2018
Companies that solely utilize display advertising for performance marketing need to complement this strategy with native comparison search ads. It differs in that it's specific to one particular product...
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Booking adds APAC to global meta line-up with HotelsCombined deal
By Martin Cowen
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July 9, 2018
Booking Holdings is buying hotel metasearch site, HotelsCombined, for an undisclosed sum. HotelsCombined was formed in 2005 and has built up a strong presence in APAC from its headquarters in Sydne
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