Major search engines add trip planning services
Submitted on October 27th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Resources and The Mac Side and Services
Both Google and Yahoo! just rolled out new services to help you find flights and other trip planning services to their ever growing list of products. Google’s offering is found directly in their search engine and allows you to find airline flights by doing a search with airport codes. You will then be given 2 new boxes so you can input dates for your trip, and are then transported to Expedia, Hotwire, or Orbitz (Expedia is the default). Here’s a sample search from San Frascisco to New York.
Yahoo’s offering is a full fledged service called Trip Planner which offers much more extensive information, and if you have a Yahoo! account, you can use it to plan your entire trip. Just create a trip, then start finding cities, and Trip Planner will help you find stuff to do in the area including restaurants, entertainment, and shopping. It’s still in beta, but looks pretty promising. I’d love to see flight and car rental information along with the rest of the offerings, but a combination of this with Google’s flight search could be a good resource.
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