Thursday, June 4, 2009
Bing for travel - not ready for prime time
I have been intrigued by Bing and used it yesterday to research my blog post - definitely better than Google but still not very useful for research. So today I thought I'd try it for travel.
Normally I use Kayak or Expedia - and today's early morning task was finding a hotel in the Duomo district of Milano for 3 nights in July (I'm going for the U2 concert - yes I know I'm crazy).
Bing just didn't cut it. Kayak gave me 9 hotels to chose from (when filtered by internet being available) and Expedia gave me 34. Expedia was not able to let me chose the distance from the Duomo itself but it has very clear presentation of the basics about each hotel in the summary.
Bing gave me 1 hotel.
Enough said. It's not ready for real usage.
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I've used Kayak for years now, it was an innovative market-changer. Farecast, which was acquired by Microsoft to rebrand as Bing hasn't seen much of a change from it's original format. I am fairly impressed by both in my extensive usage, and would not judge a travel-search by results produced on one search-inquiry. It's really not a representative sample for features it provides. One very unique feature of Bing is fare-predictor, and it works really well!
You may also want to try Sidestep, Yapta and Mobissimo to expand your experience.
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