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Web site allows
visitors to find
great travel deals
WWW.SIDESTEP.COM
out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY BROOK BRISTOW
THE GAMECOCK
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S Behold Web surfers, now you can put down that key
J board, pick up your surfboard and go to Hawaii.
Who can you thank? You owe it all to the newest
I search engine of them all: www.sidestep.com.
Quite simply Sidestep.com puts together travel deals
| and allows you to search for them. SideStep gives travel
' buyers immediate access to an inventory of trusted air
t lines and rental car and hotel chains. It also provides trav
* el suppliers with technology and services that improve
| their margins by driving increased bookings to their Web
| sites. On the other side, SideStep offers consumers a rich
selection of flights, hotel rooms and rental cars — in
cluding hard-to-find Web specials—all in one place.
It’s a pretty brilliant concept in a way These days, in
a society of instant gratification and a want for things
to be shorter, louder, faster, shinier, better, and instant,
a search engine that can deliver all these is great.
Business travelers and travelers in general don’t
have time to do research, so Sidestep.com offers a bet
ter alternative.
You can download the real version. It works like a
Napster or name-your-music-downloading-provider
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here and the rest, you know what to do. Put in your des
tination, how long you’re staying, et cetera, and the en
gine does the work for you. Or if you are too lazy to
download it, you can try the demo free at the Web site.
Of course, since it’s a demo, nothing really happens.
Unfortunately the real downloadable version is only
available through PC format, so Mac users will have to
suffer without SideStep.
Sidestep has worked out partnerships with great
organizations, such as Virgin Atlantic Airways,
British Airways, Singapore Airlines and Hawaiian
Airlines. So there is no reason to complain—this little
engine can get you all around the world. All it takes
is 5 minutes to download.
Now there should be no more excuses about why you
can’t go to London. All the research is done for you, the
best rates are in front of you, and everything is done
—you just pick where, when and how much, and that’s
it. Now the only things you have to remember are to
avoid most British food and not to mess with the guys
with big fuzzy black hats who stand in front of the
palaces. Happy searching and happy traveling!
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