official kayak.com technoblog

The techno blog has officially moved to the new general-purpose kayak blog . Please redirect your feed readers there for all future technical posts. Thanks.

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-movage.html

These samples are a bit old, but are a good starting point if you want to try implementing the Kayak API in Perl or Java. If you have a better/cleaner example you would like to share, let us know...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/09/perl-and-java-examples-of-kayak-search.html

Just a quick note to let you know that we know that the search API is having some problems. We're working on tracking them down. So now we know that you know that we know. We'll let you know when...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/09/search-api-problems.html

Sometimes people ask why the kayak search API is not a true Web Services implementation. Bruce Ecke l just posted an interesting article that pretty much covers it for me.

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/06/where-is-kayak-wsdl.html

We've made a pretty major change to the search API this week, slated for release next Thursday. Actually, it's not so much a change to the API as it is a change to kayak.com itself, and the API i...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/06/search-api-changes-coming-next-week.html

We're suddenly picking up a lot more people using the search API. There are a few problems that people run into, and they are our fault. Sorry. The first problem is that there is a parameter mis...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/05/search-api-common-problems.html

We've had some trouble with the Opera browser recently. It used to work on kayak.com, and now it's broken. There is good news for you Opera fans out there: our pals at Opera gave us some Javascri...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/03/opera-browser.html

Kayak.com is one of a number of new travel "meta-search" web sites. As a group, we are tiny in comparison to the large online travel agencies, and we face many of the same challenges. One of the...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/03/better-travel-searching-for-all.html

In today's kayak.com patch, we updated the search API to include flight segment data, which includes cabin, equipment type, wheels up/wheels down on all segments of a trip, along with some more s...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-search-api-is-live.html

The flight and hotel search APIs have been out for about a week and a half. We had a few glitches but they are now fixed. We've received feedback from several users that are trying it out. One p...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/03/kayak-search-api-update.html

We're looking for a few good programmers. We're about to make our HTTP/XML API available for flight and hotel searching. This will allow clever developers to make mashups of kayak.com search resu...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/02/flight-and-search-api-beta.html

This article on our "corporate" page summarizes the technology we use to build and run kayak.com. Feel free to comment on it here.

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/01/5-minute-summary.html

This is the official kayak.com technical blog. Here we (the various members of the kayak programming team) post our thoughts, ideas, questions on technical issues. The information on this site w...

http://kayaklabs.blogspot.com/2006/01/introduction.html