How is a metacrawler better than a regular search engine?
Studies show consumers search four to five Web sites before making a purchase. Kayak.com saves the consumer time by searching all of these Web sites in seconds and displaying rates and availability for more than 440 travel brands. We provide the user with powerful filtering and sorting tools, so they can find exactly what they’re looking for quickly and easily. Then, Kayak.com then lets the user decide where to purchase-direct from a supplier such as the airline’s own website, or from on online travel agency like Orbitz. Unlike the online travel agencies, Kayak.com is free to use. Do you plan on getting into the package market or will you continue to metacrawl? Kayak.com launched a beta version of a package product on Thursday, June 26. We hope to add several more providers over the next two weeks and formally launch the vacations product soon. Kayak.com is the first travel site to offer a true meta-search product for vacation packages. Will you ever implement a feature to pick a desti
