Its elevator pitch is that it’s “a smart “Kayak” for tailored deals when you don’t know where or when you want to go.”
ZapTravel attempts semantic travel metasearch, with activities upfront
April 2, 2013 By 8 Comments
Expedia starts testing natural language travel search Big Data-style
January 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
It’s not just startups trying to capture the mood for developing natural language and semantic search in travel – Expedia is quietly working on its own platform.
For the sake of innovation in the travel industry, it is time to unleash the (Big) data
November 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
Big Data. I know, you’re totally sick of this topic. The chatter about Big Data is just numbing – even the Harvard Business Review joined the chorus a few months ago.
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CheapAir unveils semantic search for booking flights with natural language queries
September 28, 2012 By 6 Comments
CheapAir.com has begun beta-testing a semantic search tool that allows users to pose natural language flight queries with airport codes and dates in various formats.
Hopper nears launch with additional $12M in funding
August 15, 2012 By 10 Comments
Travel search startup Hopper has announced an additional $12 million investment round led by OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds.
Big Data and the infinite possibilities for the travel industry
January 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
Similar to most up-and-coming technologies, there is much confusion as to what something like Big Data really means and how it can help make the customer experience better and lead to more sales.
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Big Data: Bringing the magic back to travel technology
September 20, 2011 By 9 Comments
Last week I was invited to speak on a panel at the Boston THack, Tnooz’s event for developers and engineers. The topic was innovation in travel technology.
Travel technology shakedown – are APIs evil and is XML dead?
September 15, 2011 By 22 Comments
Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as “broken” is probably not going to take many aback.
Hopper aims to inspire with $8M in funding and 600 servers
August 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
With $8 million in new funding from Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures, travel startup Hopper hopes to continue building its own servers and to bridge the travel inspiration gap.
Hopper ready to unleash full text travel search system
March 14, 2011 By 12 Comments
If the future of travel search is something like Hopper, and if Google has something like this in mind for its ITA Software acquisition, then opponents of the deal may have more to worry about than they realize.
