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Mail based search – now get search results in your inbox!

Abhinit — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:06:50 +0000

We have launched mail based search feature on 90di, wherin you can send your travel search queries in subject field of email to the emailID 90di.com@gmail.com and you will get your search result in your inbox within minutes.

Search query should be normal free text based search query. For example if you want to find flight fares between Mumbai and Delhi on next Friday, you can send an email with suject Mumbai to Delhi by flight next friday and you will get the results in your inbox.

Along with the booking link tele booking numbers of all the airlines are provided so that you can call the airines directly and book your ticket.

For train availability, just start your query with keyword “AVL” and provide all the required information. For example for availability for train number 1014 between Bangalore and Mumbai your query should be AVL train 1014 SBC to LTT on 07/Jul/2009 2A

Try it out and let us know your thoughts!

Now search round trip travel routes in free text search bar!

Abhinit — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:03:43 +0000

Our free text search bar now supports round trip search requests too and you don’t have to search twice for your round trip journey. Instead you can now search something like

Bangalore to Mumbai tomorrow morning and return on tomorrow night ,

and you will get both onward and return routes. Or you can search something like

Delhi to kolkata by flight on friday and back on monday morning.

If you have observed my examples closely you must have noticed that free text search bar now supports time range along with date too. So you can have any of these time range in your search queries: morning, evening, tonight, noon, night, afternoon etc.

So go ahead and try it out.

90di iGoogle widget

kiran — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:20:35 +0000

If you are using iGoogle, then here is a new widget for you.

We have created the 90di iGoogle widget. Click here to add it to your iGoogle and start using using it!. Below is the screen shot of 90di widget.

Alternatively, you can click this button to add this widget to your iGoogle.

We love to hear from you regarding this.

Warm Regards,

Kiran

90di.com launches natural language search for travel

Abhinit — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:23:45 +0000

We have just released text based search on our website. In this feature you can submit your search query in simple text and you will be shown relevant search results. So it is no longer necessary to fill in a detailed search form and submit. You can quickly type in a few words and search your route/fare. This feature is aimed at giving our users the flexibility to search more targeted and filtered routes (And also aimed for people who hate using mouse). To illustrate this let us see some examples of how this can be used:

Normal search: A normal search query can look like

Bangalore To Delhi on 5^th October

Now you can have more targeted search strings as

Bangalore To Delhi on 28^th October by train

Bangalore To Delhi on Oct 29 by Flight

Or instead you can write

Bangalore to Delhi on next Tuesday

Bangalore to Delhi on 25/10/2008

People more familiar and comfortable with airport and station codes can search like,

SBC NDLS train sunday

You can even just type

Bangalore to Delhi

Or if you just want to check the schedule of a train you can search by typing train name or number like,

Sanghamitra Express schedule

Or just the train or flight number,

2951

There are many more ways you can construct your query and I am sure you will find this by giving it a try. And as always we will eagerly wait for your suggestion/feedback about this feature.

Incidentally this feature release coincides with the 1st anniversary of 90DI website release.