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Farecast Live Search: Officially Part of the Microsoft Family

May 21 at 6:06pm by admin

You won’t get paid for using this newly implemented search tool over at Live Search, but you could save some cash. After acquiring the airline ticket search engine Farecast earlier this year, Microsoft has been working on integrating its technology into its Live Search platform. The new search tool, called Live Search Farecast, is now live.

It looks and feels much like Farecast’s original search engine, utilizing the same branding and icons alerting you about good and poor times to purchase an airline ticket. There’s also the hotel and airfare search options as well. Your Farecast accounts have been sucked into Microsoft Live as well, but it looks like your user info stays the same.

So far, Farecast searches aren’t easily accessible directly from Live Search’s main page, but if you click on the “More” tab you’ll be able to access Farecast by selecting “see all” for search options. Performing a search for flights doesn’t yield any prominent Farecast search results either, so the implementation of Farecast within the Live Search family seems somewhat limited for the time being.

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Farecast Live Search: Officially Part of the Microsoft Family