Airbnb's Next Big Change: Search
Skift Take
Airbnb is really good at hyping up its incremental product changes, this better be as game-changing as it's billed to be. Either way, better search, better for the user in a world of overwhelm.
Airbnb announced a big earnings quarter on Tuesday and as part of that, also hinted at a big change coming in its product next week: a complete redesign of how people search on its service.
From its shareholder letter/release it posted along with the earnings, it also included an invitation for a launch event on May 11 where co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky will unveil a slate of product updates and changes — like it now does regularly on twice-a-year basis — in a live webcast.
From the letter:
"Searching for travel online has worked the same way for the past 25 years: you enter a location and dates into a search box. But the world has
