San Mateo, California-based Mobissimo, Inc. (www.mobissimo.com), a next-generation multi-national online travel search engine searching 80 consolidators, budget carriers, major airlines and international sites to deliver information from hundreds of airline, hotel and car rental providers, announced on November 16 its official launch ending a tremendously successful public beta in which 850 000 users performed more than 1.7 million travel searches. Mobissimo's travel search engine is built on a flexible platform that allows the company to add new travel Web sites very quickly and easily, unlike other meta travel search engines.
Svetlozar Nestorov, Mobissimo's co-founder and President of Technology, said that Mobissimo channels technology to make finding online travel deals fast and easy for consumers, and that Mobissimo’s technology combines a blend of proprietary techniques and algorithms spanning information integration, information extraction and data mining, inspired by 10 years of research experience at Stanford University and University of Chicago.
Mobissimo co-founder and CEO Beatrice Tarka said that Mobissimo represents a unique solution for both consumers and travel providers, and that users benefit by having an impartial search tool, while travel providers benefit because Mobissimo delivers qualified buyers directly to their most cost effective distribution channel, which is their own Web site.
The next release of Mobissimo will further transform the landscape of online travel when it unveils Activity Search, Mobissimo's proprietary technology which allows users to perform flexible searches such as "San Francisco to beach," which will return results to Hawaii, Mexico, San Diego, Jamaica or other tropical destinations depending on the users' travel dates, budget and other preferences. In addition, Mobissimo plans international expansion in the first quarter of 2005 with the launch of select foreign languages.
