Social networking meets high-tech at trivago

In the travel industry, pricing and availability inventory change constantly.

For example, hotel room suppliers often change their prices on a daily
basis in accordance with fluctuations in their capacity. trivago's
search technology is tailored for such shifting in price and
availability, enabling us to collect dynamic information from numerous
sources in a way that conventional search engines cannot. Our search
technology is designed for rapidly changing data. In contrast to
traditional search engines (e.g. Google) that are built to handle
fairly static information, trivago's search technology is designed to
handle highly fluid data.

trivago makes a highly individual selection a reality and as such is also a perfect Web 2.0 example. Its price comparison
engine searches numerous other websites for the best deals available in real time. With trivago you can view a full range
of hotels and package deals based on the exact criteria you have chosen. Our search engine helps people find hotels and package deals from travel suppliers all over the world.
Unlike other travel search sites we are able to show you prices from different travel agents and supplier sites.
This results in a better travel search experience, more complete search results and -best of all- savings for you.
Rather than comparing prices from different sites yourself, let us do the work and save you time and money!

From the Guardian News Blog:

"Germany-based Trivago
combines reviews, stories and photos from travellers with e-commerce
services like hotel booking. It's not the only service in the very busy
and lucrative travel vertical, but it has a loyal 40,000 followers that
spend 20,000 hours on the site each month because of the heavy
user-content approach.

Founded in April 2005, the site employs 21 staff including 10
country managers for its localised European versions including the UK,
France, Germany and Sweden. The Dusseldorf-based firm has already had
one round of funding from investors including the Samwer Brothers, who
recently invested more than $10m in Facebook, and raised second round
from Howzat, run by the Cheapflights.co.uk entrepreneurs."

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