In the more than three years since Microsoft acquired Farecast to create it, Bing Travel has pretty much lost its identity and gotten swallowed up in the whole Bing thing.
Microsoft mulls Bing Decision Engine decision and does anyone remember Bing Travel?
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Skyscanner launches Facebook flight search, plans Singapore expansion
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In the power game that is flight metasearch, steps forward can be measured in inches.
No Bing Travel-Farecast launch in Europe this year
November 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
Disappointment for those eager to see the Farecast system on Bing Travel hit Europe and elsewhere with confirmation Microsoft will not be able to roll it out to territories outside of North America in 2009.
Microsoft is believed to have originally wanted to launch the Farecast technology behind its Bing Travel portal in at least the UK by the end of this year.
Officials in the UK office said this week that the metasearch engine and price prediction technology associated with the Bing Travel brand in the US would remain under wraps elsewhere for the time being.
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Is there a Bing Travel brain drain?
October 5, 2009 By 8 Comments
I reported over the weekend that Hugh Crean, general manager of Bing Travel, is leaving the company, effective Oct. 23.
Now, it turns out, that Jay Bartot , chief principal engineer at Bing Travel, will be following Crean out the door a few weeks later, in mid-November.
The question now is whether Bing Travel can up the ante with much of the original team missing in action.
