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The first Let's Go guide was a 25-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by 18-year-old Harvard freshman Oliver Koppell and handed out on student charter flights to Europe. In 1996, Let's Go launched its website, Letsgo.com , while publishing 22 titles and a new line of mini map guides.
Google Flights is an online flight booking search service that facilitates the purchase of airline tickets through third-party suppliers. It was launched by Google in 2011 following a buyout. It was launched by Google in 2011 following a buyout.
Metasearch engines often make use of "screen scraping" to get live availability of flights. Screen scraping is a way of crawling through the airline websites, getting content from those sites by extracting data from the same HTML feed used by consumers for browsing (rather than using a Semantic Web or database feed designed to be machine-readable).
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In June 2014, Skyscanner acquired Youbibi, a travel search engine company based in Shenzhen, China. [11] By February 2015, the company employed 600 people, double the employment of 18 months earlier. [12] In January 2016, the company raised $192 million based on a $1.6 billion valuation for the company. [13]
Kiwi.com (previously known as skypicker.com) is a Czech online travel agency [3] founded by Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi in 2012. Kiwi.com provides a fare aggregator, metasearch engine and booking for airline tickets and ground transportation.
Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, [ 1 ] Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]