Snapshot Taken From Uptake

Site Overview

UpTake (formerly Kango) is a travel company building a semantic search engine to retrieve more appropriate leisure and business trip results. HUH? In other words, it uses the user to build a better search for your next trip. Whether its for play, leisure, or business. The key to this site is that you can check out “themes” which are built by the users and then shared to others within the “community”. The site indexes 18 million opinions and reviews across 1,000 travel-related sites to derive the best travel search results based on what type of trip you want to take.

My Thoughts

Like many travel companies, UpTake has integrated with Google Maps, however what differentiates it from the rest of the crowd is its ambition to tag the travel vertical itself. The basics of this is it pulls data from many sites, builds a great search from this information and lets you the user tweak it to fit your exact trip needs. Now i have yet to use this site but just to give you a heads up at one time it was known as Kango.com and then changed its name to better fit what it is trying to do. So go check them out if your planning a trip and you might want this as your next booking agent as well.