news.com.com — Users can type in two different cities, or airport codes, in the Google search box to bring up two boxes for entering departing and returning flight dates. Below those are links to several travel Web sites including Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Clicking on one of those links leads directly to flight options on that site.
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twistxOct 28, 2005
Umm.. old? Google has done for almost a year now. Apparently someone didnt get the memo.<a class="user" href="http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2004/01/16/google_flight_tracking.html">http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2004/01/16/google_flight_tracking.html</a>
eric_n_dfwOct 28, 2005
Microsoft hasn't owned Expedia in 4 years: <a class="user" href="http://www.forbes.com/2001/07/16/0716expedia.html">http://www.forbes.com/2001/07/16/0716expedia.html</a>
eric_n_dfwOct 28, 2005
twistx, they have not done this for a year - that blog refers to flight information (the status of flight), not availability.This could be a huge deal for people in the travel industry, at least for those partnering with Google, as it could drive sales to those partner's web sites.
edmicmanOct 28, 2005
Whoa, another nod for kayak, I didn't know about that place! Where's the kayak digg?
theakdukeOct 28, 2005
It will be cool when they have all cities available. Right now only major cities like LAX and NYC are listed. I am more interested in the ANC and FAI to anywhere flights.
tnooOct 29, 2005
It can't be too many major airports that are listed because BWI to LAS didn't bring up any results. (Baltimore/Washington International to Las Vegas for those who didn't know.
saggygrandmaOct 29, 2005
IN OTHER NEWS, Microsoft are developing a site that calculates available flights between terminals, where they got this unique idea from, were they got this idea from..? well i guess we will have to put it down to their genius..Steve Balmer is reported as saying "The Idea of this new flight search feature spawned from our same creative team behind the MSN Virtual Earth project and only hope this matches their briliance" Steve also is reported to mutter to one of his engineers later "Google isn't coming out with a search service for repairing chairs anytime soon are they... cause it would be great if we could develop a similar product.. if they ever were and all.."
togasanOct 29, 2005
The interesting question one should ask is, how much did they pay to get google to search them? :)<a class="user" href="http://blog.mobissimo.com/archives/38-Google-Introduces-The-Booking-Buddy-and-TravelZoo-Killer.html">http://blog.mobissimo.com/archives/38-Google-Introduces-The-Booking-Buddy-and-TravelZoo-Killer.html</a>
Closed AccountNov 1, 2005
Good point. Seems like this is just another place to advertise. Other travel search engines do it better though than Google like www.sidestep.com, www.mobissimo.com, and www.farechase.com. I wouldn't put Kayak in the same league. They don't do a real-time query so they usually just send you to the front page and you have to re-create the search all over again. Crappy user experience. But the others are worth a try.