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Old Feb 18, 2010 | 10:47 am
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What HAPPENED to Farecast?

I mean, common microsoft.

I tested this product back in the pre beta days, I thought it was GREAT and it opened up a new dawn in the age of informed airfare ticket purchases.

Then, it got bought by MSFT. That was okay, they kept it separate. Product only continued to get better.

Then, it got integrated into their search engine, PRE bing. Okay, it was still the same things.

Now, it su..kcs . The "prediction" is sort of still there. "we are confident prices will go HIGHER or LOWER" but no more data is there.

There USED to be actual Price data, and a price graph showing DATES and PRICES in $$ for the fare for the flights you were looking at. The PREDICTION used to show 65% confidence that prices will RISE or FALL more than 25$, xyy. 25% confident stay the same, etc.

It was QUITE an indicator and after booking more than 30 trips a YEAR the engine proved to be very valuable indeed and ACCURATE most importantly.

But now, it appears that those DATA are gone. What gives.
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