Microsoft on Friday announced its partnership with online travel search firm Kayak. com to bring flight search results to its web browser Bing.
Users of the new service, which will be available within a few weeks to come, will be able to search flight results from Bing’s travel search section. However, the service will be available only in the United States.
Krista Pappas, Bing’s global travel industry director, said the deal would allow the company to focus on delivering more unique and valuable features for consumers.
Just a few weeks back, software giant Microsoft announced an auto-suggest feature which would show flight prices even before a user completed typing in his/her query.
Both, Microsoft and Kayak, are members of an organization called FairSearch, which is opposing Google's $700 million takeover of ITA whose software powers the reservation system of most of the US airlines and online fare-evaluation services like Kayak.
When Microsoft launched Bing Travel in June 2009, Kayak had reportedly accused the software giant of stealing its design. But, Kayak did not file a lawsuit. Since then the two companies have been trying to block common rival Google's acquisition of travel site ITA.
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