City Guides and Travel Search Engines
Get to know your college town a little better, or plan a vacation or study abroad trip with these search engines.
- Google Local: Many don’t realize that this popular site is also a search engine. Find local businesses and addresses here.
- MSN City Guides: Click on a city to get started or type in a general location or activity to let this search engine find fun things for you to do in your area.
- Aardvark Travel: This site helps you in “sniffing out travel sites from around the world.” Browse by location, type of vacation, travel activity, flights, hotels and other topics.
- Kayak.com: This aggregate travel search engine finds the lowest air fares, cruise vacations, car rentals and hotel stays available through the Web that match your travel requests.
- Ask City: Search special events, entertainment guides and maps for your city on this site.
- Mobissimo: Search MobiDeals or enter in your travel information to let this site find attractive airline tickets, hotel reservations and car rentals.
- Trabber.com: Trabber.com searches 31 different websites to bring up cheap flights based on the schedule you submit.
- Local Search Guide: This mega search engine connects you to local maps and directions, businesses, phone numbers, movie times and weather information.
- Search.Travel: This beta search engine finds information on travel deals and transportation, events and activities to do in the location you search, and more.