Comments on: UpTake, the travel search engine that gets its traffic from Google, takes in $10M

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By: Yen

Yen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:39:26 +0000

Dan, thanks for the thoughtful post.

The unaddressed consumer need we are tackling is to aggregate and filter the ocean of existing travel information so consumers can make better decisions faster (then head off to their favorite booking site). This need is not solved by creating more content or organization tools; it is best solved by organizing the information that already exists so consumers can find what’s more relevant based on who they are traveling with, why they are traveling, or other trip preference. We also believe it doesn’t make sense to fight gravity and build a destination site or negotiate distribution deals – we get travel consumers where 73% of them start their research…in web search.

Cheers, Yen

By: Media Highlights from UpTake’s Series B Announcement - Travel Industry News - UpTake Blog

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:49:21 +0000

[...] Here are the highlights of the media coverage resulting from the announcement: VentureBeat [...]

By: ‘uptake’ takes off with $10 million in the ‘Series B’ | Startup Meme

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:27:49 +0000

[...] a search engine designed specially for travellers, has raised an amount of $10 million in the second round of funding. Company’s CEO is Yen Lee. He has prior worked as a general manager of Yahoo Travel. Previously [...]

By: jasper

jasper — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:15:52 +0000

Dan, good post. There is too much information out there already, what I need are sites that help me get to the information I need when I need it.

I was impressed by the site. Not because they aggregate content but how they used the content to recommend romantic hotels and how they only showed me the most useful snippets of text to explain why I would want the particular hotel

Good showing

By: Neil Cohen

Neil Cohen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:44:34 +0000

The product works great. I just used it with great success to find a place in Carmel to stay for Labor Day weekend. It really saved me a lot of time and I did bookmark the site once I had a great experience. Focusing on SEO prior to building a consumer brand with outbound advertising is smart business.

By: Randy G.

Randy G. — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:35:06 +0000

Congratulations uptake team. Time for the hard work – let's see you get your search rankings even higher!

By: The Pedro

The Pedro — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:36:15 +0000

So let me get this right – if I can get decent SEO ranking for less competitive keywords I can raise $10 million? And why is it apparently a good thing that only 2% of site traffic comes from direct traffic? Doesn't that mean low loyalty? Am I on crack?

I'm sure Uptake's tech team is great and conceptually the site is interesting, but I'm exhausted by sites that aggregate other sites' UGC.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +0000

this makes sense to me.

i start all my research in google and it seems a lot easier to get me to their site that way than to get me to learn and remember their name

By: September 17, 2008 | next media update

September 17, 2008 | next media update — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:22:43 +0000

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By: UpTake consigue una inversión de 10M

UpTake consigue una inversión de 10M — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:39:34 +0000

[...] el buscador de viajes anteriormente conocido como Kango, ha recibido más de 10 millones de dólares en una segunda ronda de [...]