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Old Nov 13, 2008 | 10:31 am
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Originally Posted by gglave
- As others have said, the return of Travelocity's "Dream Map," but worldwide, and one that actually works and actually has seats at the fare quoted.

(VERY challenging due to the computational load required to analyze every destination from San Francisco to Sacramento to Santa Fe, determine the fares and then present them all.)
This kind of search could be done in advance and cached, with hourly updates. Sure, you'd make an occasional error by presenting something that's no longer available (or missing something that is available), but availability can be checked when the user selects the flight.
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