Comments on: Bing Travel Arrives

By: Jared Conley

Jared Conley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:22:25 +0000

I just purchased tix to Thailand. Bing was cheaper than anywhere on the net. Kayak kept listing prices, but none of them were real. As i clicked through the Kayak price it was in reality 200-300 more expensive (this experience happened 2 days in a row). I will never use Kayak again and I recommend against them. Nothing makes me more mad than thinking i have a deal and it really isn’t available!

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buy darkfallonline gold — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:42:10 +0000

Bing Travel is one of the initiatives that Microsoft is launching to differentiate Bing from traditional search engines which mostly provide information and links instead of tools that help visitors make more informed decision quicker

By: lucky

lucky — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:56:43 +0000

Actually Microsoft is the one who started expedia with one travel guru(i dont remember his name) of that time, and bing in no way is a threat to expedia..they both are doing different things….
one is just search n other is actually selling the stuff and giving away commisions to affiliates like bing..

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By: OhDave

OhDave — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:03:06 +0000

Maybe it’s an anomaly, but I just gave the Bing travel a shot for the first time, punching in roundtrip flight information from JAX to CMI, no restrictions on stops, etc.
Bing’s lowest quoted fare was $548, with stops in Dallas and Chicago; I even used Bing to check American Airlines’ price, which it quoted as $548.
I went to aa.com independently, and got a price of $391, with stops in Miami and Chicago. Strange, I thought, so I went to Expedia.com: $390. Travelocity: $391. Hotwire: $391.

Like I said, it may be a fluke, but I’m not impressed so far; 4 searches, and Bing is the only one that missed the boat (or plane, as it were).

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moneyma — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:12:38 +0000

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By: GZ

GZ — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:40:19 +0000

anyways, who are you..Couger?….You love MSFT?…. NOM… You seem to make a lot of noise for bing… bing is good…really… but Google ain’t bad either…

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Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Test Blog — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:03:24 +0000

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Fenixnordic Group » Blog Archive » Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:01:12 +0000

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By: Bing devient le premier des moteurs de recherche grand public à inclure un comparateur de prix voyages « Toujours Connecté

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:44:22 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:11:49 +0000

When Farecast predictions are wrong (as they often are), they can be VERY wrong, and result in you losing a lot of money.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:09:58 +0000

Bing Travel often shows low price fares that are in fact not available; Kayak more often filter these out.

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Bing Leapfrogs Yahoo! in First Week — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:19:30 +0000

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By: jdhuo

jdhuo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:49:54 +0000

o,a new travel Microsoft website http://www.bing.travel ! ilike it

By: Bachir

Bachir — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:28:47 +0000

a search for flights from Brussels to NY gave me a cheaper price on Kayak(815$) compared with Bing (997$).

other than that i compared the hotel prices they offer with the price on the official page of the hotel chain and i did not manage to find a cheaper price, on other websites from time to time manage to find better deals by first using a general travel website to find hotels and then look at the official website of the hotel.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:59:30 +0000

While I’m at it:
1) Is anyone else wondering why tripadvisor (also owned by MS) is not part of bling travel search? Tripadvisor is by far the best Hotel (re-)search engine, but instead of harnessing that we get some lame 2nd tier hotel capability. Is MS hedging? How about TA’s recent addition of flight searches?

2) How long until we see lawsuits ala AA v Kayak. Now that behemoth MS is running the searches, more airlines might assert their rights over airfare pricing.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:32:29 +0000

Kayak launched in 2004 – Farecast in 2006 – two years later, with an interface that looked like kayak’s even back then.
Kayak has consistently outranked farecast in visitor stats by at least a factor of six.

Yahoo’s product was Farechase – not Farecast.

I believe that of the “original” cast of meta-searchers, only Mobissimo and Kayak.com remain independent companies today.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:19:12 +0000

… which was a rip-off of kayak even back then – with the only innovation being the cheesy fare predictor. The search engine behind farecast/bing is ita software (it really powers the results of all travel search engines that matter these days).

Given that all these web-sites do not much else but put an interface on great technology, Microsoft could have innovated … maybe just this one time.

I’d say bing is a bong …. oops … that would actually be good .. never mind …

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By: Saad Fazil

Saad Fazil — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:36:07 +0000

And Google is paid? LOL

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By: Norm Rose

Norm Rose — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:41:21 +0000

As my colleague Joe Buhler stated in his comment this is not a Kayak copy but rather the former Farecast software purchased by Microsoft. I’ve been tracking Meta-search since they came to the market and in 2007 I was involved with the early development of Travelzoo’s Fly.com. The key differentiator for Bing Travel is the positioning of the travel search on the main search menu. The first media company to purchase a meta-search was Yahoo! with the original innovator Farecast, which preceded Kayak. Unfortunately Yahoo! Travel never capitalized on the meta-search model and Carol Bartz killed the project when she came on board.

By: genesis

genesis — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:23:14 +0000

keep dreaming. its free. meanwhile, Google is gonna Binged exactly where it hearts.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:31:52 +0000

Actually it looks like, and is, farecast, the company Microsoft bought in spring of ‘08. Do your research.