Online intelligence service Hitwise recently announced the market share of 4 major travel search engines have increased by 304% in the last 6month period.
Specific travel search engines, such as Kayak, have seen a staggering 6,000% rise in visitors from Oct 2004 to April 2005 whilst Farechase, Mobissimo and Cheapflights gained more modest increases of 659%, 350% and 56% respectively.
The ability of travel-meta search engines to find the lowest prices and has been credited for their blossoming popularity.
