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"Kayak.com is your objective and comprehensive source for travel information."
hmmmmmm....... yet another travel website.
"airline flight, hotel, and car rental information from other websites " Be interesting to find out if they have the information owners permission to use it in the first place.
Looks like another 'Agency' style offering. When will people learn to be original. I used to work for a travel agent, so I knows all about these style of sites.
I'm not impressed.
About.com announced it has inked a two-year partnership with Kayak.com, a Norwalk, Conn.-based comparison-shopping site for travel deals.In a first-of-its-kind deal for Manhattan-based About.com, an online consumer information network that was bought in March by the New York Times Co., Kayak.com will serve as its “premier booking partner.” Visitors to About’s travel pages will find a box where they can enter basic information on a planned trip; they will then be connected to Kayak’s site. Links to Kayak will also be embedded in articles about destinations, says About.com’s senior vice president of content, Michael Daecher.
Full Crain's story here [newyorkbusiness.com]
If being big and doing partnerships was the answer to fortune and glory, then what happened to Galaxy? It just seems that something big is alway the best, and with that thinking it will guarantee success or amasing results for others. I still believe in the power of the individual over money, power and size any day.
This will be the same old story me thinks.
New company is founded, Users/advertisers flock to it for 12 months, then get tired and realise it's actually not that great, then go back to what they were using before. Meanwhile the whatever new company has made it's cash, and so forms even more partnerships, affiliate schemes and make even more vast sums. Finally being sold of to some large group.
Founders then start on the next money making project.
Until they cash out for 100 million each.
Anyone got any thoughts on this? Is it just me who is tired of all these power games with public money.
