Mobissimo First to Bring Comprehensive Travel Search to Netvibes' Five Million Users

September 13, 2006; 09:15 AM
Mobissimo, Inc. (www.mobissimo.com), the world's most comprehensive travel search engine, and Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the wildly popular personal start page service, announced today that the Mobissimo Travel Search Module is now available to all Netvibes users. Mobissimo is the first travel search engine accessible on Netvibes.

The Mobissimo Netvibes Module allows travellers to search hundreds of different global travel suppliers directly on their Netvibes personal start page, providing instant access to the world's largest source of air, hotel, car and travel deals. Mobissimo will soon give Netvibes users the ability to create personal real-time fare indices of historical and future prices for travel to their favorite destinations. Users will be able to create a standard FareIndex such as Paris to U.S.A., and San Francisco to Skiing, or select up to 20 different city combinations to create their own customized FareIndex. Each time users visit Netvibes their personal FareIndex will be automatically updated with real-time dynamic pricing information.

Netvibes is a free service that offers Internet users a better way to organize news, information and Web-based services. Netvibes users build their own personalized start page by assembling their favorite sites, data feeds, blogs and email accounts onto a single web page, creating a dashboard for the consumer's digital life. In less than a year Netvibes has become one of the most popular Web 2.0 consumer services, attracting over five million active users across 100 countries.

"Netvibes and Mobissimo audiences are very complementary. Our global users are looking for an easy way to find information quickly," commented Beatrice Tarka, Mobissimo's CEO. "With Mobissimo, Netvibes travellers from around the world can search all their favorite travel sites, compare fares and book travel using one search engine."

"We help users cut through the Internet's bureaucracy by connecting them to exactly what they need," said Tariq Krim, founder of Netvibes.

From today, the Mobissimo Netvibes Module is accessible directly from the Netvibes ecosystem for all people looking for travel information. A link to Netvibes is also available on all Mobissimo's global Web sites, and users can add the Mobissimo module to their Netvibes page in a matter of seconds.

About Mobissimo

In Italian, Mobissimo means the "ultimate in mobility." For consumers, Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search tool because it improves the way people discover travel information, saving time and money. Mobissimo simultaneously searches 169 different travel sites in 30 countries and five continents, including major global airlines like American Airlines and Singapore Airlines, low-cost carriers like Jet Blue and EasyJet, major travel sites like Orbitz, eBookers, and Opodo, and hotel/car rental sites, to find the best fares and rates online. Travelers from 188 different countries take advantage of Mobissimo's powerful Travel 2.0 search tools including OneBox natural language search, PowerSearch for multiple city searches, MobiCombo for dynamic ticket combinations, and ActivitySearch for theme-based travel planning. Launched in 2004, Mobissimo continues to be the leading travel search innovator. Mobissimo specializes in international travel search and is the only travel search engine with operations on three continents. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and is privately held. For more information and to experience Mobissimo, please visit www.mobissimo.com.

About Netvibes

Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim with offices in London and Paris, Netvibes is the leading independent provider of personalized start pages. Netvibes allows users to manage their digital life by conveniently assembling their favorite sites, RSS feeds, blogs, email accounts, etc ... onto a single page.

Netvibes recently launched ecosystem, an open directory of thousands of services and content available via Netvibes. Netvibes is already used in more than 100 countries around the world. For more information, please visit http://blog.netvibes.com/ or email [email protected].