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Luckily for them, flight search is such a small [1] industry.

[1] orbitz, chapoair, hipmunk, expedia, travelocity, farecompare, cheaptickets, hotwire, priceline, kinkaa, zoombu, cheapflights, etc

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Funny enough, these sites (including Kayak) are pushing users away from flight booking and towards hotel booking because the margins are much larger.

kayak.com defaults to hotel search now, for example.

While the major guys move towards hotel booking, startups are tackling a lot of different problems in travel. This feels like perfect time for kayak to be raising money to compete. More here http://khuyi.tumblr.com/post/1592395981/online-travel-ripe-f...

Careful, they default to whatever search you ran last :)

Well, then the default default is hotels.

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