Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, Search, web 2.0
Microsoft relaunches Farecast, changes almost nothing
Just over a month after paying $115 million for travel planning site Farecast, Microsoft has relaunched the site. And after spending countless hours integrating the site into Microsoft's Live Search suite of web applications, the result is... basically identical to the old site. The biggest difference we can find is the Live Search label appended to the Farecast logo.
Microsoft has folded Farecast user accounts into the Windows Live suite, which means you can login using your Windows Live ID.
You won't find Farecast results from the main Live Search page. You'll have to click the More tab, and then select "See All" to find Farecast. But eventually we wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft started bringing up Farecast results for regular travel-related search terms. That clearly hasn't happened yet. When we entered the search query: "New York to Philadelphia flight" the top search result was a link to TripAdvisor.
[via Mashable]
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