Another development in the still relatively short life of Silicon Valley darling Hipmunk with the unveiling of its hotel search service.
Due for release this week, Hipmunk says it is taking the spirit of the uniqueness of its existing flight search engine and trying to apply it to hotels.
Rather than the grid system used by its air search, hotel search is almost exclusively map-based and initially comes across as a familiar hotels-plotted-on-map interface.
Read the full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2011/03/01/news/hipmunk-launches-hotel-search-swaps-agony-for-ecstasy/
