Comments on: Travel Search Site UpTake (Formerly Kango) Launches In Public Beta

By: UpTake Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding

UpTake Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:00:10 +0000

[...] a travel search engine that specializes in helping users find travel ideas by taking a semantic approach to indexing destination descriptions and user comments across the [...]

By: UpTake’s Public Beta Launch Receives Positive Reviews - Travel Industry News - UpTake Blog

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:45:35 +0000

[...] Schonfeld at TechCrunch suggests travelers use UpTake for specific types of trips, “If you are looking for ideas for [...]

By: UpTake.com is now open to the public! - Travel Industry News - UpTake Blog

UpTake.com is now open to the public! - Travel Industry News - UpTake Blog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:43:02 +0000

[...] 10:15 AM – thoughtful coverage from AltSearchEngines (interview, announcement), ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, The Semantic Web, Search Engine Land, AppScout, Creative Think, Mashable, Washington Post, Budget [...]

By: Deal Radar 2008: UpTake - Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal Radar 2008: UpTake - Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:30:10 +0000

[...] was founded by Yen Lee and Gene McKenna and is based in Palo Alto, California. As reported on TechCrunch. In May 2008 they came out of private beta as UpTake. The team includes Huanjin Chen, formerly [...]

By: Elliott Ng

Elliott Ng — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:35:49 +0000

@beatofhawaii,

Hi! Thanks for giving us a try and helping us set expectations. Yes, we agree that we have a long road to go before we’re great but we *know* that no other site aggregates as much content as us, and even with the product as it is we can save a lot of people time.

I read your review at beatofhawaii.com and its good. The issue of military affiliated lodging is an interesting one and generally doesn’t come up on top destinations…but it does in Hawaii because the tend to get favorable reviews, and the price/value equation is so great…IF you are eligible.

I’ll get in touch with you via Twitter and see where you think it is the most “half-baked”. We intentionally called our Things to Do “Almost Beta” because we are not quite there, BUT we feel the Hotels search is already pretty unique.

follow me @ http://twitter.com/elliottng

By: beatofhawaii.com

beatofhawaii.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:15:04 +0000

Uptake is a great idea. I loved it. But I tried it and at present it isn’t half baked. The search results are flawed and often half of the review sites or more don’t show. There are lots of other shortcomings and inconsistencies but we hope that they keep working and get them ironed out.

I spent quite some time with the product and did a review of Uptake last week on my (not for profit) site.

Aloha,
http://beatofhawaii.com

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:37:07 +0000

I’d love to take a vacation. Unfortunately I am too busy getting our app launched.

Maybe next time.

Peter
follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

By: An UpTake’s Take on working in China for a global startup

An UpTake’s Take on working in China for a global startup — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:48:29 +0000

[...] from the web to make vacation planning easier. UpTake also got press at ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, SemanticWeb, SearchEngineLand, Les Explorers and the UpTake blog itself. It is only for United [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:17:51 +0000

Congrats to Yen, Elliot & the rest of the UpTake team It’s a very cool product.

Rob Solomon left Yahoo & sold SideStep to Kayak for a bunch of money…and other Yahoo’s have done similar with their start ups. So, I’m expecting big (no, HUGE) things from these guys.