Forecast for Farecast: Buy Now - UPDATE

UPDATE: According to Roger from Microsoft, Farecast now has a new URL, which is http://farecast.live.com, and they've been forwarding visitors since May 21. Roger also had a great point about Compete's data, which does not show sub-level statistics and can thus show some skewed numbers. Thanks for the comment Roger. I'll keep an eye on your progress. -

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This past April, Microsoft purchased one of my favorite travel sites, Farecast.com. Farecast no longer looks like itself, and has MSFT logos tattooed all over its homepage. I wondered to myself, does the Farecast user care about this management change, or do they prefer to obtain travel information from an independent and trusted source.



Though this data is not scientific, it looks like Farecast users have started to drop. There are certainly other reasons why this could have happened (e.g travel seasonality), so stay tuned to this integration.