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September 07, 2004

Travel Search Beta

As you may have heard, earlier this summer Yahoo! acquired FareChase, a travel search company. FareChase's technology enables people to perform real-time searches against more than fifty travel sites.

Tonight we began testing this new travel search engine. It's still in beta but we're hoping you all can bang around on it and let us know what you think.

Jim Yang
Director of Product Management

Comments

When will FareChase work with browsers other than Internet Explorer on Windows?

I certainly would love to use Safari on Mac OS X...

-- Al

A site only for IE? :/

It seems Linux users don't travel, they prefer spend holidays hacking some code in their dark rooms LOL

C ya

Here's what I think:  It doesn't work.

"FareChase does not currently support the browser you are using."

Until this works in a decent browser (Firefox, Safari, etc.), I will not be using it.

That being said, the idea is very interesting, and I hope to see support for other browsers ASAP.

Overall, I've found farechase good at finding fares, especailly international.

Only gripe is I hate your formating of times, it is very confusing. I see 04:30p, I think immediately of 4:30 in the morning, and don't register the "p" - I am sure any European will, to.

This new tool is great...inj the same way i don't believe Yahoo should be too tight to ie...I think people keep in mind that Yahoo is MSN 's alternative and should therefore be available in ANY browser...is Yahoo! open minded :)
As for the site, I think it would be great if we could actually personalize the main page with spotlight destinations fares of our choice just like what we have on My Yahoo
For example my gf told me she'd like to go to the USA sometimes (I'm french) well I'd like this site to be able to be able to display the best fares for certain US cities for example.
Keep up the good work

Thanks for the feedback. Totally understand the frustrations re: browser support. We are planning to support the following Windows browsers in the near future:
IE 5.0+
Netscape 7.1+
Mozilla Suite 1.7
Firefox 0.9

Mac browser support will be in place for the GA release.

I'd love to check it out but since I use Mac OS X and Safari it tells me my browser isn't supported.

Interesting site! How and when will PPC advertising opportunities be integrated?

Sweet! I love the feel of the UI by the way.

Often times for personal travel the duration of the stay is more important than the specific days of travel. For instance I might want to go back to England to visit my parents for a week but I don't really care whether I travel on a Monday or a Wednesday. It would be cool if the site could do some searching on this basis. I'd like to give it a tentative start date and a fixed duration and then it would give me the cheapest roundtrip flight within, say, a week of my start date.

This Farechase thing is pretty cool. I did have one comment. I searched for fares from SJC to JFK and it defaults to showing me the lowest fare possible, BUT it showed America West flights from SFO to JFK, not from SJC. I think it should default to the cities/airports you name first and then give you an option to try nearby cities, or maybe there is a message to say "Want a lower fare? Try a nearby city - click here". Keep up the great work!

The tool is great, but how about allowing to search from multiple origin to multiple destinations? Like any of BayArea airports to any of NYC airport ...

Would be a killer feature.