Comments on: Travelzoo’s Fly.com Launches Yet Another Travel Search Aggregator

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By: Best Travel Metasearch Websites

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By: Kayak responds to new TripAdvisor search engine - Travel - LATimes.com

Kayak responds to new TripAdvisor search engine - Travel - LATimes.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:54:21 +0000

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By: Mr Travel

Mr Travel — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:54:03 +0000

I am glad to see someone else immediately noticed the differences (or lack there of) between Kayak and Fly.com.

It should also be noted that Sitestep.com is also a competitor that they ripped. Even though kayak and sidestep merged, I think it is worth noting.

I wrote a blog about this on my travel website as well, because I couldn’t believe they would waste a domain name like this. I didn’t even know they paid 1.8 mil for it either.

If you actually screen shot Fly.com and Sidestep.com, and opace one of the images, the designs are ridiculously similiar as well. The boxes are mere pixels apart.

Kudos to Kayak/Sidestep, cold pricklies to Travelzoo for lack of innovation.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:19:42 +0000

I hear kayak is good, but the name kayak is a bit strange for air travel. While its a good site, i always get an image of wading through water, not a good image for airplane passengers.

By: 10 Links I caught on Twitter | Venture Capital Cafe

10 Links I caught on Twitter | Venture Capital Cafe — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:13:19 +0000

[...] accurate. According to the site, Fly.com is only worth $17,000, a much lower valuation than the $1.8 million Travelzoo paid for [...]

By: WOndering

WOndering — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:53:17 +0000

spam!

By: WOndering

WOndering — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:52:57 +0000

How does this compare with yapta.com…doesn’t it do the same thing with tracking?

By: Alex Berger

Alex Berger — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:22:23 +0000

Anyone found a site like this that pulls in decent discount/budget/regional airlines?

By: KillerStartups.com - Fly.com - A New Travel Search Engine

KillerStartups.com - Fly.com - A New Travel Search Engine — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:09:37 +0000

Fly.com – A New Travel Search Engine…

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By: Joe Johnston

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:57:41 +0000

Sorry this wasn’t ment to be spam, just thought it was a related topic since they were talking about Kayak, sorry, please delete this comment if need be

By: mahalo bruddah

mahalo bruddah — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:01:27 +0000

good god, that is some handy ripoff work. So much so that I will not use it.

From a business perspective though, Kayak has done all the design work. All travelzoo needed to do was probably spend a total of $2M to basically buy Kayak minus the marketing efforts. The promote fly.com to its email marketing list and voila, you have instant money machine. Makes lots of sense. Not cool if you are kayak, but makes sense.

By: zapper

zapper — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:57:36 +0000

Its a good and usefull website that help me to find my plane flight schedule :p

By: jack

jack — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:31:39 +0000

Why to do it?
The travel search engine market is ‘done’ after
Kayak took sidestep and yahoo bought fatechase.
Http://twitter-1.blogspot.com

By: kiran

kiran — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:27:24 +0000

Its a good website.

By: Francis Simisim

Francis Simisim — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:42:11 +0000

that’s a lot of money for a 3 letter domain, I wonder if it’s worth the money in the long run.

By: vince

vince — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:37:33 +0000

gaaaah i hate stupid spam like this

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:01:42 +0000

thats a nice website.

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:53:49 +0000

http://www.couchsurfing.com/

I meant cross orbitz with couchSURFING.com

wow, these domains are all so similar.

By: lazysupper

lazysupper — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:52:08 +0000

So… good. It seems we’re not in a recession after all.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:46:52 +0000

Somebody seriously needs to mash Orbitz with couchpotato.com and let people that live in really good spots monetize on that.

By: Information fragmentation in the world of Web 2.0 » sneaker.org

Information fragmentation in the world of Web 2.0 » sneaker.org — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:39:03 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:56:51 +0000

So long and thanks for the spam.