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Criteria based travel search enginesOct 04, 2008
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It's been a few weeks since my last blog but we've been busy...very busy releasing our new criteria based travel search engines.Why is this such a big deal?  Because we've released what we think are the most powerful, comprehensive and easy to use Tour Search Engines and Activities Search Engines...that is a big statement to make however we know of no other company that is able to:1. Con...
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Destinations visited: London
Advertising continues to move onlineSep 15, 2008
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Over the weekend I read another article about the state of the Fairfax group's newspaper classified advertising.  This article stated that Fairfax has experienced declined of up to 40% in some of its classified advertising markets. My earlier blogs reveal that this is not good for the industry, as I am pro-serious journalism.  However what this article does demonstrate to the m...
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Destinations visited: Melbourne
Hits vs Page viewsSep 04, 2008
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Over the past few months i've seen enough journalists and presenters use the term "hits" when quoting web stats in print or in their presentations that I thought I'd write something about why this isn't a good stat to quote.A page view is the number of times a web page is viewedA hit is the number of times a web page is views PLUS the number of images that web page hasI think to explain the differ...
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Destinations visited: Melbourne
Google ups the anteSep 03, 2008
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The announcement that Google is launching it's new browser application "Chrome" has caused quite a stir in the industry.  For those who don't know, Google has been a supporter of the Firefox browser (one that bugbitten.com fully supports on both PC and Mac platforms).Whilst I've seen called from some companies that Google is stepping into a space it shouldn't tred...I personally on the o...
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Destinations visited: San Francisco
Life without travel...Sep 02, 2008
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A thought popped into my head today (it does happen occasionally) about travel and what would life be like with out it.  I mean, back in my former days working in retail banking, travel was usually the best way to  start a conversation with a customer because either:a. they had just been on a trip orb. where just about to go on a trip or c. were planning their next tripI don't ...
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Destinations visited: Cairns
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