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KAYAK launches exclusive limited - time hotel sales

Today we announced the launch of exclusive, limited-time hotel deals (kayak.com/privatesale). The service uses our search data to identify which hotels KAYAK consumers most desire, and then sources special deals from those hotels at prices reduced by as much as 50... Read more »

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POSTED BY JEN - THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010
 

KAYAK broadens European offering with Ryanair and lastminute.com

We’ve made several enhancements to its UK and European sites, including a licence agreement with Ryanair, a partnership with lastminute.com, and the launch of a Holidays channel in the UK. The announcement builds on the site’s comprehensive offering and strong growth in the UK, with 2009 search volume up 34% over 2008... Read more »

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POSTED BY JEN - TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010
 

The Kayak Red Phone

The KAYAK technology team has a secret "red phone" which is a hotline between travelers and our product development team. Every now and then (currently about 30% of the time) when a traveler clicks on the http://www.kayak.com/feedback page, the secret Red Phone number shows up as an optional way to contact our team. The Red Phone has a mechanical ringer, and is set to be LOUD :-) and given that we have an open office layout, when an engineer answers the phone, their peers can hear how that engineer works with the traveler who called us. The purpose of the Red Phone is simply to give one additional method for KAYAK engineers to be in contact with travelers every day. ... Read more »

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POSTED BY PAUL - THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
 

The untold story of the new KAYAK iPhone app

Um, well, it was untold. But now we told it... Read more »

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POSTED BY BILLO - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009
 

KAYAK Partners with Travel Junkie Julia Dimon for New Travel Blog

KAYAK is launching TravelJunkieJulia.com, a travel blog written by travel expert Julia Dimon. Dimon, an established journalist and self-proclaimed travel addict, will share her travel advice, stories from favorite destinations, suggestions for holiday trips, and much more... Read more »

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POSTED BY JEN - MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
 

Announcing KAYAK First Class, our premium iPhone app

You may have heard about our free application for iPhone. With it, you can search for flights, hotel rooms and cars, and book them directly where you want, even by making a phone call. It's been pretty popular: we have over 550,000 unique activated users so far... Read more »

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POSTED BY BILLO - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009
 

KAYAK Launches Free Itinerary Management Tool – KAYAK Trips

Free Service Helps People Manage Their Travel Plans After BookingNorwalk, CT, November 11, 2009 – KAYAK (kayak.com), the world’s leading travel search engine, launched KAYAK Trips, a free itinerary management tool that easily consolidates travel plans from multiple travel sites into one web-based itinerary. To use the service, people simply forward booking confirmation e-mails from travel suppliers and online travel agencies to their KAYAK user account.Paul English, KAYAK CTO and co-founder said, "We’ve already made it simple to compare hundreds of travel sites at once. Now we’re making it easier to track the bookings you make across any of those sites including one-click sharing of your trip details with your friends.”... Read more »

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POSTED BY ROBERT - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
 

Introducing (drum roll)… KAYAK on national TV. The story behind our ads.

I’ve heard that Peter Drucker said there are only two functions of a business, product innovation and marketing. I guess we missed that class. You see, we’ve always had a "build it and they will come" approach. And they’ve come… quite a few in fact. So what does he know... Read more »

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POSTED BY ROBERT - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009
 

Are People Afraid to Fly on Halloween?

If So, Can You Save Money On Flights When Other People Are Scared? I ran a quick analysis of US flight search data over the past two years on KAYAK sites, to find out the flight pricing trends on Halloween.I looked at average selected airfare prices on Halloween vs. the overall average for the past two years. Prices were 5% less on Halloween. That's not a massive difference, but across such a large sample, it's statistically significant. Then I looked at other dates when people might be afraid to fly - Friday the 13th and September 11th. I found an even bigger difference here - average selected airfare prices were 12-14% lower than the average for the past two years... Read more »

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POSTED BY GIORGOS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2009
 

Kayak iPhone App updated

Version 1.3 of the Kayak iPhone app is now available in the iTunes Store. We've fixed a lot of bugs, and replaced the scrolling/wheel date selector with a calendar. On the bug side of things, the app now crashes a lot less, the false "no internet connection" bug is fixed, and all of the disappearing results problems are fixed. We hope you like the calendar for trip selection. You can swipe to pick you trip with a single stroke, or you can touch the start and end days of your trip. You can also adjust the end points of your trip by touching and dragging the start or end day. Picking a round trip can be done in one touch, whereas the old wheel-based selector needed at least six touches. More importantly, since it's a calendar view, you can see the day of the week, and get a better "feel" of when your trip is... Read more »

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POSTED BY BILLO - TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2009
 

Staycation over? KAYAK Survey finds people will travel far and wide in 2009

Baggage Fee Calculator, Hotel Rate Calendar and Custom Airports Launch in Time for Summer SavingsNORWALK, Conn. – May 11, 2009 – Despite the economy, 95 percent of the more than 4,100 who participated in KAYAK’s Annual Summer Travel Survey plan to travel this summer. More than 41 percent said the recession did not affect their summer plans in any way which is double the number from KAYAK’s 2008’s survey... Read more »

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POSTED BY JEN - MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009
 

Kayak's Favorite Holiday

Cinco de Mayo is a special day for Kayak. It is the day, back in 2004, when we launched our first (Alpha) site. We had 13 employees, a T1 and two servers back then. As a corporate entity, we were less than 4 months old. Here's what we looked like: ... Read more »

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POSTED BY BILLO - TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009
 

Custom Airports. Seriously.

Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has wanted custom airport selection on Kayak flight search. And now, in the greatest human achievement since Stonehenge and the merger of Drakes and Hostess ("all your snack cakes are belong to us"), Kayak gives you what we call:(wait for it)"Kayak Custom Airports."Suppose you are Jay Leno, you are in Burbank and you want to fly to Paris. But you don't like LAX or Long Beach airports. For most of the life of the known universe (13.5-14 billion earth years), you would have been COMPLETELY unable to find flights from BUR, ONT and OXR to CDG on Kayak.com with one click. But lo... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
 

Effect of Swine Flu on Travel Search

We thought it would be interesting to see how the swine flu has affected user travel search patterns.The data below shows the relative change in user search activity from last week to this week, to and from Mexico... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
 

Kayak.com appoints Robert Birge as Chief Marketing Officer

CMO of IMG Worldwide Joins to Lead Aggressive Offline Marketing PlanNORWALK, Conn. – April 23, 2009 – Kayak.com, the world’s largest travel search site, today announced the appointment of Robert Birge as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Birge will manage all offline marketing, advertising and public relations activities, including the planned launch of a major offline advertising campaign. Birge will report to Kayak.com Co-Founder and CEO Steve Hafner and will be based at the company’s global headquarters in Norwalk, Conn... Read more »

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POSTED BY JEN - THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009
 

Vote for Kayak in the Webby Awards

As I'm sure you know, what happens to you in high school will haunt you for the rest of your life. I was just chatting with Warren Buffett the other day. He's still bitter about the Junior Spring Cotillion when Janey Neuman wouldn't dance with him because she was taller than him. Well, it wasn't THE Warren Buffett, the billionaire. It was my friend Warren Buffett the arborist. The point is that it COULD have been THE Warren Buffett the billionaire, and you would totally believe the story.* I'll let you in on a little secret. There are some of us here at Kayak who were not exactly popular in high school... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
 

Kayak on your iPhone: the Inside Story

We are really excited to announce that Kayak is now available for your iPhone and iPod in the Apple App Store. We're selling it for the pretty much the best price possible: FREE. That's the most important part of this post. We have an iPhone app, if you have an iPhone and you travel, you should download it. The rest of this article is the story of how we made the iPhone app. If you are not a software developer, the intense boredom rays emitted from the information herein is likely to melt your temporal lobe. You'll wake up in two or three hours with a face full of keyboard and a keyboard full of drool. ... Read more »

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POSTED BY BILLO - MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2009
 

KAYAK.com launches several new tools to help calculate the total cost of travel

baggage fees, cost of gas... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2008
 

Kayak Trip Ideas: Take a Trip With Indiana!

This month moviegoers will be flocking to see the 4th installment of the Indiana Jones series. Although we don't know the folks who write the movies, for travel geeks like us, the spectacular locations where he fights bad guys are another reason to love the epic. And judging from the image of the plane tracing a line across a faded map, we bet he has a little travel geek in him too! We're big fans, so we've put together our own 'Adventure Trail', a list of some of locations used in these great film classics... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008
 

KAYAK.COM USER SURVEY REVEALS CONSUMERS STILL TRAVELING DESPITE STATE OF THE ECONOMY

Choice of Destination and Type of Transportation Most Affected By Economy“Search By Segment” Launches; Offers Another Way to Compare Hundreds of Search Results ... Read more »

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POSTED BY SYSADMIN - FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008
 


 
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