Kayak.com

Kayak.com

Kayak.com is a travel search engine website based in the United States. Founded in 2004, it information from over 100 other travel sites and helps users book flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars. Kayak combines results from online travel agencies, consolidators such as Orbitz and Airfare.com, and other sources such as large hotel chains.

Kayak doesn't sell directly to the consumer; rather, it aggregates results from other sites then redirects the visitor to one of these sites for reservation. Thus, Kayak.com makes money from pay per click advertising, when the consumer clicks-through to one of the compared websites (For example, when the consumer is redirected to the Orbitz website).

The company was established in January 2004 by the ex-founders of Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia. It is headquartered in Norwalk, CT and has an R&D center in Concord, MA. Kayak.com has raised $30 million to date, and its investors include Sequoia Capital (led by Michael Moritz) [cite web|url=http://www.sequoiacap.com/company/kayakcom/|title=Sequoia Capital provides funding for Kayak.com] , America Online, General Catalyst Partners, and Accel Partners. It was named one of TIME Magazine's "50 coolest websites" of 2006 [ [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222598,00.html Travel and Real Estate - TIME] ] .

In late 2007 Kayak bought SideStep, another travel search site.

References

External links

* [http://www.kayak.com Kayak.com] official website
* [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2004-11-12-aol-kayak_x.htm America Online aims to be in vanguard of Internet travel] - Associated Press
* [http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/free_forbes/2005/1114/100.html Struggling upstream] - Forbes.com
* [http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/travel/articles/0731tra07filla0731.html Travel search engines don't fly with SWA] - Boston Globe
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/14/business/ecom.php Online shopping sites fight customer bailouts] -- International Herald Tribune

competitor: Trax


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