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• Stealth Startup Kango Working on Semantic Search For Travel

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Kango

  what’s promising about Kango is the way it slices up search subjectively. Kango is building a semantic search engine focussed narrowly on travel. It parses the language in all of those reviews and guides, and categorizes them by generating tags for them. “You cannot wait for users to add tags, you have to derive them,” says

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• Local Kango Bloggers Gain Access to Al Gore Nobel Prize News Conference

  Published: October 13, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Al Gore, Eco, Gore, Kango, Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, October 12, Palo Alto, Press Conference

  only 5 blocks from the Kango Offices After receiving the Tip from a friend the Kango Blogger news crew (3 people and one Digital SLR camera) traveled the 5 blocks to see if the tip was real (Alex von Oech got the tip). With ~ 30+ news crews we figured that the former Vice President would soon be arriving. People from the community came

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• Lifting the Veil

  Published: September 23, 2007, 11:23 pm

  Tags: Kango News, Kango, Kango Private Beta, Kango Com

  many months with my fellow Kangos collecting and documenting the best ideas for helping travelers like you plan fun getaways and unforgettable vacations. We have worked very hard to produce a site that is extremely useful and easy to use. Now the time has finally come to see if our hard work has paid off. Take a sneak peak at our site through

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• What if Google had to Design for Google? a little fun…

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:52 pm

  Tags: Humor, Kango News

  to attract consumers, the Kango team struggles with myriad challenges that at times seem a bit unrelated to our core mission of helping travelers take great vacations. Getting into the Google index and the indexes of Yahoo, Ask, MSN, etc is absolutely critical. It is how we will survive. We know we will be offering great content to our

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• Boooo!

  Published: October 31, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Humor, Kango News, Halloween, Just For Fun, Kango, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Carving

  Here’s a little Halloween fun from the entire Kango Crew!   Carving courtesy of yours truly, resident pumpkin artisan.

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• The T-List

  Published: November 14, 2007, 3:12 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Kango News, Blogging, T List, Travel And Tourism Blogs

  tourism bloggers. Since the Kango blog is growing, we thought we would join in on the fun. The instructions are pretty simple: Instructions - Write a post. - Copy/paste the link list from the post you've discovered the T-List into it. - Make sure the links are active and correct. - If your blog is on the list, remove it's not a self-promotion

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• Search for Travel Blogs

  Published: December 8, 2007, 12:32 am

  Tags: Blogging, Kango News, Travel Blogosphere, Travel Blog Search, Travel Search, Travel Search Widget

  During the past few months, we realized it is a time consuming and frustrating experience to find great travel blogs. We wished for a tool somewhere to help us. We couldn’t find it. We decided to build a travel blog search tool, add our favorite travel blogs and then ask the great blogosphere to help us with the search results. We hope,

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• Update: Search for Travel Blogs

  Published: December 12, 2007, 10:19 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Kango News, Travel Blogosphere, Travel Blog Search, Travel Search, Travel Search Widget

  in for additions to the Kango travel blog search. We have updated the database with these travel blogs: Happy Hotelier Hoteles 2.0 Pangkor Island Blog Bicycle Adventures Blog Yangshuo Travel Guide Blog If you like the widget, be sure to add it to your own blog. Keep sending your suggestions for travel blogs to add to the search

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• We Are Almost Ready To Welcome You To Kango

  Published: December 17, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: Bay Area Outings, Kango News, Romantic Getaways, Destination Information, Family Vacations

  & I founded Kango to make it easy and fun for you to discover information about your travel options and to make better travel decisions. Our mission is for Kango to be your first step to a great trip. Travel is the largest e-commerce category on the internet with almost $90 billion booked online in 2007. But you still have to buy travel

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• Kango Announces $4 Million Round From Shasta Ventures

  Published: December 18, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Kango

  Kango, a semantic search engine for travel, announced that it raised $4 million from Shasta Ventures earlier this year. The terms previously were not disclosed. Kango looks at travel reviews and other information across the Web and automatically generates tags so it can categorize results by how “kid friendly” or

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• Private Beta for Family Vacations and Romantic Trips

  Published: December 19, 2007, 3:00 am

  Tags: Bay Area Outings, Kango News, Romantic Getaways, Family Vacations

  Kango just announced the launch of our private beta yesterday morning and we would like to know what you think of our site. Please sign up for a private beta invitation and let us know what you like and what we can improve. We recognize we have a long way to go to achieve our vision of becoming your first step for planning your trip. We look

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• Kayak & Sidestep Merger Highlights Trends In Online Travel

  Published: December 21, 2007, 10:12 pm

  Tags: Travel Industry News, Travel Industry, Blogging, Kango News

  preferences. That's what Kango is doing - simplifying that research process by collecting everything you need to decide in one place, enabling you to filter down to your most relevant options based on your preferences, and helping you decide what to price compare/book based on our natural language analysis of reviews from all over the web.

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• Analyst and Blog Feedback on Kango’s Private Beta

  Published: January 10, 2008, 5:24 pm

  Tags: Travel Industry News, Kango News, Kango News, Travel Industry

  based on preferences. Kango is an exciting example of how this is possible, making travel planning easier and delivering qualified leads to travel providers”. Tim from Business of Online Travel talks about how Kango is the natural evolution of meta-search to solve the problem of too much information Kayak aggregates price,

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• New competition for Kayak/SideStep — Yahoo launches price comparison travel search

  Published: January 10, 2008, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Travel Industry News, Travel Industry News, Kango News

  It seems like just yesterday that the travel sector crowned Kayak the undisputed heavyweight champion of price comparison search following their acquisition of SideStep. But wait! It looks like Yahoo has (finally!) unveiled FareChase, the price search engine they acquired back in 2004. On the Yahoo Travel homepage, the Travelocity booking engine

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• Blog Search Update: New Additions

  Published: February 11, 2008, 11:28 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Kango News, Search Tool Recommendations, Travel Blogosphere, Travel Blog Search, Travel Recommendations, Travel Search, Travel Search Widget

  sent in suggestions for the Kango travel blog search tool. Check out the original post here and the updated list here. We are now up to 135 blogs that are part of the search tool, and we look forward to adding more! The widget is a tool that you can add to your blog or search yourself, allowing you to find all sorts of terrific information

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