Comments on: Yahoo Travel Chases Kayak With FareChase

By: Travel Stuff

Travel Stuff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:22:01 +0000

Yahoo Travel switches from Travelocity to FareChase as its default travel search engine…

Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch analyzes what led Yahoo to use FareChase instead of Travelocity for its default travel search engine. Looks like the market for price searching is heating up just as the economy begins slowing.
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By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:54:32 +0000

The Travelocity interface was much better…Yahoo will definitely suffer a loss in share in the short term. Much easier to keep what you have versus stealing share from someone else.

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:05:32 +0000

Calling this a release of FareChase is somewhat untrue. It’s more pusing it to front and center. I’ve been using FareChase, on Yahoo, for quite some time now.

By: Andy Schweig

Andy Schweig — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:41:01 +0000

There are other sites in this space I have found which are also intriguing in that they allow you to search Kayak as well as many other travel search. Perhaps you would call them meta-meta search sites? One example which does a pretty good job is http://www.lowfares.com …

By: James Paden

James Paden — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:13:10 +0000

Farechase is NOT the default option, classic still is (at least for me). You have to select the Farechase checkbox first.

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By: Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:27:13 +0000

Very nice interface.

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By: The Hater

The Hater — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Farechase looks really, really slick. Some pretty ridiculous front-end engineering going on there. Somewhat unbelievably, no hate from me.

By: Marzipan From Toledo

Marzipan From Toledo — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:59:46 +0000

@6: the number of monthly uniques would indicate that web 2.0 is mainstream if you are insinuating that only the hip & cool web 2.0 SOMA crowd know about Kayak.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:27:30 +0000

Yahoo! mat be finally waking up again. Good for them.

By: Raul Lopez

Raul Lopez — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:42:20 +0000

Brian and Stuman,

Good job on selling SideStep!

RAUL

By: Voices.com

Voices.com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:23:36 +0000

I just used Yahoo Farecast yesterday to book a flight from Detroit to Phoenix and found the service fast and easy to use.

By: rose

rose — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:31:52 +0000

I like the interface of the classic Yahoo Travel.

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By: listen_to_techcrunch

listen_to_techcrunch — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:25:30 +0000

I have been using farechase for years now!
Never even heard of Kayak until they doled out $200 million to sidestep.

By: mickey

mickey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:15:25 +0000

Hmmm - looks curiously like the recent version of AOL travel.

By: Finding Cheap Flights

Finding Cheap Flights — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:11:07 +0000

You’d be surprised about how few people know about Kayak outside the “2.0 circle” compared to Orbitz, Travelocity, and the older sites.

This move should give Farechase a lot more exposure.

By: Neil C.

Neil C. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:32:15 +0000

This is a smart move for Yahoo. I’ve been a long-time FareChase user and have always found it to have more comprehensive carrier listings for air travel than its merged competitor. Isn’t that why you use one of these in the first place? As for Kango, they are not playing in the travel price comparison world — as a private beta user I know first hand they are focused in on the travel planning and more of what you do after the travel purchase is made.

By: Ofer Shaked

Ofer Shaked — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:29:57 +0000

James, I would be more careful with those statements.

Let me remind you (without taking away any of the success my friends at kayak have had building a business) that Farechase was the first to build travel search application. Kayak was started as a copy of the application Farechase built.

True, not a huge amount of visible change on Farechase functionality recently, but the Yahoo team has done an *amazing* job building a business around it to a level that it can replace their old Travelocity deal, and that is not to be taken lightly.

By: Ido

Ido — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:25:50 +0000

Farechase was one of the best vertical search engines for the past 3-4 years. It’s nice to see that it get the ‘hot’ spot after such a long time
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By: James

James — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:09:31 +0000

Ha ha, yeah i don’t think they will take any traffic from the people who use kayak, farechase has had no innovation for as long as they have existed all most, Kayak has it’s easy interface that gained traction. It’s really just Kayak, FareCompare and FareCast left of the players to fight for market share from the OTA’s.

By: Kevin L.

Kevin L. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:21:15 +0000

I was on Kayak last night and I couldn’t get the searches to return anything when I was searching multiple sites. They may have some integration or traffic issues right now following the acquisition.