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[danzar1972]

Hello,

I would be glad if someone can review this new travel search engine I have developed:

http://www.trabber.co.uk

I will really appreciate any comment.

[Brian Chandler]

If you don't care about the price, you won't mess around with "search engines". If you do care about the price, typically you don't mind exactly what day you go on. Therefore the standard "search" mechanism for airlines, requiring a departure date first, is singularly useless. You could really help by providing a search for the best deal "within a week" for example. (From experience: last time I bought a ticket from London to Tokyo, lastminute.com in the end, I had to search day by day, which was really tedious.)

Your date box doesn't indicate what format it expects. Dates are so jumbled, around the world, or rather inside and outside the USA, that I think drop-down boxes would be better.

There isn't a "New search" link on the results page.

The "direct link" appeared to take me to the lastminute.com home page, not the specific flight.

I don't really see what you hope to provide in the way of added value... ?

[danzar1972]

If you don't care about the price, you won't mess around with "search engines". If you do care about the price, typically you don't mind exactly what day you go on. Therefore the standard "search" mechanism for airlines, requiring a departure date first, is singularly useless. You could really help by providing a search for the best deal "within a week" for example. (From experience: last time I bought a ticket from London to Tokyo, lastminute.com in the end, I had to search day by day, which was really tedious.)

Your date box doesn't indicate what format it expects. Dates are so jumbled, around the world, or rather inside and outside the USA, that I think drop-down boxes would be better.

There isn't a "New search" link on the results page.

The "direct link" appeared to take me to the lastminute.com home page, not the specific flight.

I don't really see what you hope to provide in the way of added value... ?

Thanks for your comments!

We already have a best deals search engine, however we requiere more people to use Trabber to really put it in place, as how it does use "cache" searches from all users. Here is the link:

http://www.trabber.com/es/en/offers

Regards.