Kayak.com Searches Hundreds of Travel Sites
Kayak.com searches hundreds of travel sites to give you the widest possible choice of flights and prices.
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Kayak is a travel search engine. Which means we search hundreds of travel sites from all over the world, provide the information to you in an easy-to-use display and send you directly to the source to make your purchase. More than any other travel site, we help you find the perfect flight, hotel, cruise, or rental car. After all, what good are 1000 options when you can’t find the flight you want? Once you make your choice, we link to the travel sites to make your purchase. Kayak allows you to choose which site to purchase from– through an online travel agency or consolidator such as Orbitz or Airfare.com. Kayak’s search engine can find all kinds of travel products– from flights and hotels to rental cars and cruises. Our fare alerts and fare history help travelers stay on top of ever-changing travel prices.
In short, you are in control of your travel choices. Since we search hundreds of travel websites (including online travel agency sites), you now have to search only one: Kayak.
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Kayak was started by founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia who believed in a better online travel experience. They hired a crack team of geeky engineers who brought expertise from all over the Web and redefined the way people search and purchase travel online.
But, what truly makes us different is that we listen to you, our users. Kayak employees (from our CEO to accounting to our aforementioned geeky engineers) personally answer each and every email. Try it. Send a question or comment to feedback (sample: “Where has Kayak been all my life?”) and you’ll get a real answer from a real person (sample: “In southeast Connecticut, thanks for asking.”)
Anyone can listen but we also react. Sometimes it’s fixing a bug reported by a user. Other times, it’s adding a tool that users are asking for. For instance, we received a ton of requests for multi-city and flexible search, so we dropped everything and built it. In fact, we’re the only travel search engine to offer these tools.
Kayak believes travel is fun and why shouldn’t the process of researching and booking travel be as enjoyable as the rest of the trip (or even better than the trip if you’re traveling with a halitosis inflicted co-worker). You’ll see a sense of humor throughout the site, from our tool tips to our weekly newsletter. After all, it’s not rocket science (it’s computer science) so why not lighten and laugh a little.
[via Zawodny]