When To Hold Out For A Lower Airfare - FiveThirtyEight
2014年4月20日 · In 2008, Microsoft snapped up Farecast, a company in the business of predicting airfares, for a handy $115 million. A poster child of the Big Data revolution, Farecast analyzed hundreds of...
Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the ...
2014年4月8日 · MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago this month, has turned off the price prediction tool that informed travelers of the likelihood that airfare prices...
Remember Farecast? Bye-bye, Bing Price Predictor - PhocusWire
2014年4月8日 · Farecast was a free service that helped travelers decide whether they should buy a ticket now or wait and hope that the fare drops. The startup's predictions of whether you should "buy" or "wait" were based on an analysis of historic price data. It was the first Big Data play in consumer travel.
Farecast - Airline Incentive Management Platform - Travelogix
Farecast is a new airline incentive management platform developed to enable Travel Agencies, TMCs and Consortia to analyse and track the performance of their airline overrides and commercial contracts.
MSN Travel - Wikipedia
MSN Travel (previously Bing Travel, Live Search Farecast, and Farecast.com) is an airfare prediction website in the computer reservations system industry. It premiered to the public as Farecast on May 15, 2007.
Farecast - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
Unlike other travel companies, Farecast predicts when a user should buy a ticket based upon 175 billion points of previous airfare data. Its engine can currently predict whether airfare goes up or down up to a week into the future with a claimed success rate of 70-75%.
Farecast Helps You Predict Cheap Flights - Datamation
2006年6月27日 · Farecast.com not only shows you which fares are currently the cheapest, it uses advanced mathematics to predict whether those fares are likely to go up or down in the next few days.
Microsoft confirms purchase of Farecast travel site
2008年4月18日 · Microsoft bought Seattle-based airfare prediction and travel site Farecast earlier this month for around $115 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
Five Years Later, Ex-Farecast Founder Asks "What Is Bing Doing?"
2013年8月1日 · Oren Etzioni, the founder of Farecast who sold it to Microsoft in 2008, says he’s “disappointed” with Bing’s development and “expected more” from Microsoft’s search engine.
Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Travel - Lifehacker
2009年6月4日 · Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down.