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Exclusive: Kayak to Launch Restaurants, Tours and Activities Comparison-Shopping Features

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: Kayak plans to launch a product enabling users to compare restaurants and make reservations online. Pictured is Nobu Fifty Seven in Manhattan, which is bookable on OpenTable.  Nobu Fifty Seven

Skift Take

Engineering geeks like big, tough problems and the coders at Kayak are attempting to take on the challenges of comparing diverse restaurants in a city and also the attributes of this hop-on hop-off Beverly Hills tour versus a competitor's. And you thought comparing various flights with bag fees was tough?

Kayak is poised to launch two new metasearch products for restaurants, and tours and activities. Co-founder and CEO Steve Hafner and chief technology officer Giorgos Zacharia tell Skift that both features pose immense challenges since it is so difficult to compare restaurants, on the one hand, and tours and activities, on the other. For example, how do you compare the qualities, menus and pricing at two or three Italian restaurants in a given neighborhood? And comparing various Vatican tours or several bus excursio

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