Go Kango Go!!! Great Travel Search Engine
One of the companies I work for, Kango.com, is about to go beta! Ok, so this might not be particularly exciting for you, but it is for me and for all of the team in the Palo Alto offices. Lucky buggers, out there in the beautiful Northern California weather. I stomp my snow-covered boots lovingly at them.
Ok, so back to the big announcement, Kango is going beta. Which is very, very, very exciting. Why? Because it is going to change the way you think about searching for your next trip. Kango is like a cross between Mahalo (the human-powered search engine), TripAdvisor (the travel review site), and StumbleUpon (the social networking tool). Actually, it isn’t ‘like’ that cross, it IS that cross. Their enormous database has pulled information from the far corners of the net to create a huge conglomeration of travel information and reviews. Then, like a big Sunday for us travel geeks, they top it off with the cherry of unusual search terms! Instead of having to search for what you want by location, you can search by ‘feeling.’
What does this mean for you and me? Ok, well for me it means my company is going live, which is very rewarding and exciting. For you though dear reader (and for me as well) it means you can now search for ‘family vacations or ‘romantic things to do in Los Angeles’ and come up with more than just Disney travel and The Rumba Room. No longer do you have to know what exactly it is that you want to do before you begin to search, you can search to get ideas of what to do.
It’s not beta yet but as the song goes “soon and very soon” it will be. In the meantime you can still use it! You just have to sign up for the pre-beta release. Tell ‘em Kango Suz sent you, they’ll be happy to have your feed back on their new site. See you round!
Read the full press release here.
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