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- mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yahoo seems to have copied off of Kayak.com for their AJAX style. I still like Kayak.com but this isn't bad.
- md81544, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think to us, we see all that stuff happening, and we think "AJAX! Javascript! HTTPRequest! Cool!".
My mother would look at that site and think "why is everything changing??? It's confusing! I only want to get the cheapest price!! HELP!!!!" - Arkitus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Very nice UI, but it didn't find the cheapest ticket for me. I recently booked one $100 cheaper than the cheapest on Yahoo! :p.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm just shocked someone submitted something to digg that links to the direct site and not their blog!
- Arkitus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I agree totally. My mother wouldn't like this site at all.
- rishid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it is actually pretty simple to use even for computer illiterate people. It actually found a flight that was cheaper then the one I booked, by returning to a different airport then the departure one.
- aembleton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just tried to book a return flight from Bristol, UK to Barcelona, Spain and it only checked KLM and Continental. It missed off BA, and easyJet, who tend to be the cheapest for that route. I like the implementation, but they need to increase the number of carriers they search.
Still cool though. - uicukie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you can mask opera as Firefox, and the page works better. RIght-click on the page, select Site Preferences, select Network Tab and set browser identification to Mask As Mozilla.
Same tricks helps a lot with Gmail's chat. It works flawlessly. - jmechy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7they dont support opera. lame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Expedia: $3252 (ahem)
- fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow. Looks cool. I think I will start using this. Yahoo has been making some of its products better causing me to use Yahoo more and more nowadays. Still love Google though.
I regularly use now Yahoo Mail, Maps, Chat, Games, Movies, TV listings and occasionally Search. ( wow didn't realize I use so many Yahoo tools )
I switched from Travelocity to Expedia since Expedia is showing much more discounted fares and I just saved a bunch of money...... on my car insurance as well. :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2worked out Auckland to Singapore. I'll be checking to see if some of those fares are real. Most American tools can't handle flights that don't go via the states so I was impressed. Kayak doesn't do children.
- MrDolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ok, this is how every fare search program should have been long ago.
- bjtuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ok you guys who are going off on this being a ripoff of other sites, please note that by "launch" the article is referring to how Yahoo apparently took it out of beta. I've been using farechase.yahoo.com for at least 6 months now. I don't know where the original design came from but this site didn't just appear overnight.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I did some comparison since I'm searching for a flight anyway.
Helsinki -> Tokyo one-way, 28th of May.
Kayak.com: $1657
Farechase: $791
Kilroytravels.com: $587 - hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So much for asynchronous; I was sent to a different page for fares.
- xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2very cool though it managed to crash IE the first time I loaded it....still, quite nice :)
- prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is why they still have yahoo travel.
- prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Then use yahoo travel. the travel site is using Travelocity.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Browser/OS Not Supported"
Using Konqueror on Linux. Ergo, ***** Yahoo. - binarymelon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't see how they look similar except that they both use the standard way of selecting a flight. Round-trip or not, source-destination, dates, etc. Just about every page will have a similar layout, and actually yahoo found cheaper flights for me.
- Idiot900, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks an awful lot like sidestep.com.
- parsnip2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow! This is a complete rip-off of Kayak.com. Cheaper than buying them out I guess.
- just4fun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yahoo bought farechase.com long back and its in beta from past 6 months and now they made it as public...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I could find a much cheaper ticket myself.. these services never search all options.
- bitmx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I checked the hotel search in both kayak.com and faresearch. Checkout the map on the yahoo version! It certainly can make looking for a hotel much easier/faster if you're trying to strike the right balance between price and distance.
- fedira, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you! I know, I feel like I've been using Farechase for ages -- I don't know why it "coming out of beta" (who cares?) makes it worthy of the front page.
And of course it's imperfect! If you really want the best deal for a flight, search Kayak, Farechase, Travelocity, Expedia, etc and COMPARE. - persaltier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would be cool, except kayak.com was out first and does the exact same thing but finds better fares (as others have stated above).
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Slick interface, so I'll digg... but you can get better prices off Travelocity
- woodan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is great. I hate it when sites like that expect you to know the airport codes.
- prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But they make it so much more easy. I am willing to pay $10 more if it saves me 2 hours of work heck even 15 minutes saved makes me money.
- OneZeroZeroOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2-digg for web2.0
STOP WITH THE WEB2.0 CRAP. Is this semantic? Can my applications dynamically communicate with it and understand what services it is capable of providing in a seamless, intelligent manner? No?
It doesn't even have gradients, come on. - Forkboy2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sure there is some reason that none of these sites include Southwest Airlines. Until they do, they are all pretty much useless for those of us that don't happen to live near a major hub, but do live near an airport served by Southwest.
- pbinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not sure if it is because the sight is getting more traffic than normal, but it seems slow to pop up the auto complete...kayak seems to do it faster when I just tried the same search.
- gwwallace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you are looking for deals rather than fixed travel dates http://www.farecompare.com has google maps, google earth and a different sort of interface.
- lame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used Yahoo's FareChase to find a cheaper rate than Orbitz found for the same flight specification ($315 vs. $353).
- DarthTater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0-digg for using IE ;)
- lordsnooty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But... nothing pops up when I float over links! Not very Web2.0, is it. It's almost like I'm in 2004 again.
- infoknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At the end of the day all I care about is getting the cheapest fare. For US to international my favorite secret travel site is www.cfares.com They always seem to find really deep discounts somehow.
I just checked for a friend's trip to Barcelona next month:
from JFK to BCN (05/12 - 05/20)
farechase was $662
kayak $637
sidestep $662
cfares $602 (for their platinum members) and $647 for non-platinum members.
We travel a lot so the $50 annual fee for platinum membership was a no brainer, since with one membership i could get the discount for my entire family.
I dig the farechase hotel set up though, I just got some great hotel rates from them. - Jadey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I couldn't get one way to work. Even though the radio button was selected and the return date disappeared, it returned an error asking me to select a valid return date. Icky.
- ebenthurston, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1kayak.com
- timmins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My thoughts exactly... "if you can't beat them, make an inferior copy of them"
Kayak is still better. Thanks Yahoo... first I hate you Maps beta, then Mail beta, and your new services aren't impressive. Keep trying. - nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I tryed it but it doesnent offer me the lowers price, because I found it cheaper somewhere else.
- sidhighwind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is cool.
- darkecho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0from a huge place like yahoo, i would expect more AJAX. i was quite disappointed to see all the page loads, after seeing the title here on dig.
- timmins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1you should check out Kayak... it's the original concept and much better in fine-tuning.
plus it's a smaller start-up that is trying to make money vs. a mega-corp that is having a hard time releasing original apps. - Miles314, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I agree, it looks like Yahoo liked Kayak's site too. Since this is basically it.
http://www.kayak.com - slowthinking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I love dig!
- mattkaar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Looks a lot like SideStep.com to me...
http://www.sidestep.com - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6"sight", huh?
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