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Dohop is a travel search engine website based in Reykjavík, Iceland, originally founded to aggregate and link low cost flight connections. Dohop was born in 2004. In 2005, dohop launched the world's first flight planner for low-cost airlines and later expanded it to include all scheduled flights worldwide,〔(About Dohop.com )〕 amounting to 660 airlines. Dohop is primarily a long tail aggregation agent that doesn't sell directly to the consumer, but refers the user to airline's booking engines. Dohop's income comes from pay per click advertising and from selling specialized search engines to airlines and airports. The company also operates an analytics department offering route network analysis and optimization suggestions to airlines and airports. The website won the 2006 Travelmole Web Awards in the category for best technology site,〔(Travelmole Weba Awards 2006 ) (registration required)〕 and was selected amongst the Times Magazine 100 best travel sites in 2007.〔(Times Magazine 100 best travel sites )〕 Dohop's hotel search engine searches more than 200,000 hotel properties worldwide and compares rates with several online hotel booking sites. Search results can be displayed on a map and sorted and filtered by various criteria. ==Search technology== Worldwide, there are more than 600 airlines that operate scheduled flights. The flight schedules typically extend from six to nine months. The schedules include approximately 50 million flights between more than 3,000 airports. Dohop searches these flight schedules for possible matches for the user's desired city pairs and travel dates. If there are no direct flights available, Dohop calculates possible flight combinations. The number of alternative flight combinations for a two stop flight route can be dauntingly large. Having identified and ranked the available flight alternatives, Dohop then retrieves and compares offers from online travel vendors; online travel agents and airlines, where the user can complete his booking directly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dohop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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