GetYourGuide Supplier-Blog – News and Development

People have been talking now about the semantic web and how it will revolutionize the search engine businesses for quite a while. Personally, I have not given too much thought on this entire “semantic search business”, as I have always felt that my searches were quite “unsemantic” and more directed to websites that I already knew (like “kayak amsterdam” or “tripadvisor amsterdam reviews”). However, I have to admit that my search patterns have changed over the last months and my searches are getting way more complex. Recently I find myself writing or copying entire sentences into Google – with varying results. Yet, we have the big Google competitor Bing now on the scene, so today I tried how well both search engines handle “semantic” searches in comparison. Continue reading

Within the last days the GetYourGuide team spent a considerable amount contacting Guides in some of the major European cities, such as London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. We have talked to many tourguides and agencies and have received a lot of positive feedback, which is very motivating for us going ahead to releasing an even more convincing Beta-Version. We also learned that there are many enthusiastic and motivated individual guides that love to use the service. Hence, we plan to design the Beta Version in a way that integrates tour providing organizations and individuals.

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