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Taking another (gentle) swipe at Google’s transit results

We wrote in some depth last year about the poor quality of the inter-city transit component in many Google Maps results. These results are displayed at the top of SERPs for queries like “How do I get from A to B?”. Since then…

Posted February 23, 2016 Read more ›

DB & Google Transit & the best laid plans of mice & men

Rome2rio CTO Bernie Tschirren and I have just returned from a couple of weeks in Europe; we visited Amadeus at their grand campus on the Cote d’Azur, attended the ITB conference in Berlin, and met with a number of companies…

Posted March 16, 2015 Read more ›

Political and geographic complexity in multi-modal search

We have blogged previously about two interesting challenges that present themselves when you get into the nitty-gritty of building a multi-modal search system: 1) Detecting landmasses. Accurate routing needs to be aware of landmasses and islands, and what is connected…

Posted March 2, 2015 Read more ›

Transportation images add real value to search results

Besides demonstrating that an A380 is a lot bigger and probably more comfortable than a 737, there’s not a lot of consumer value in showing an image of the airplane in a search result. Most of us know what to…

Posted July 20, 2014 Read more ›

Meta-Search-Plus approach makes for strong traffic growth

The gradual shift away from the established OTA model—Expedia, Orbitz, et al—to newer sites that are either hotel specialists (Booking.com, Venere) or some combination of air & hotel meta-search (Trivago, TripAdvisor, Kayak, Skyscanner) is not an overnight phenomenon. Consumers have taken…

Posted July 3, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio’s big vision: how well are we doing?

During our presentation at the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit last year, we outlined our vision for Rome2rio: to be the platform of choice for travel sites planning to replace their air-only search results with multi-modal results. We believed then, as now,…

Posted June 18, 2013 Read more ›

Rome2rio's big vision: how well are we doing?

During our presentation at the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit last year, we outlined our vision for Rome2rio: to be the platform of choice for travel sites planning to replace their air-only search results with multi-modal results. We believed then, as now,…

Posted June 18, 2013 Read more ›

Rome2rio ditches Google tech and develops in-house solutions

Over the last few months we have made some drastic under-the-hood changes to rome2rio that probably won't be noticed by most our users, but are important developments for our business. Until recently, rome2rio has relied upon technology provided b...

Posted September 3, 2012 Read more ›