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Filter by hotel name in search results

We recently added new slider controls to Cleartrip's search filters.

Along with the new sliders, we made another small, but significant addition to our hotel search filters--the ability to filter the results by entering the name of the hotel you're searching for.

It always seemed irksome to us that if you knew exactly what hotel you wanted to book, you'd still have to resort to sorting the hotels by name and then clicking around till you found that specific hotel in the result set.

Enter the hotel name filter--now you can enter all or part of your preferred hotel's name into a text box. The result set is instantly narrowed down to display only those hotels matching what you entered in the text box.

We don't think that finding the perfect hotel should be like looking for a needle in a haystack. And it certainly shouldn't be harder when you already know exactly which hotel you want and just need to book that hotel. This change makes it easy for you to find and book exactly the hotel you're looking for.

This is one more example of a small change that has a big impact. We're big believers in paying attention to all the little things that add up to making a big difference. A recent example of a little change that had a big impact is airlines flying slower to save fuel costs

Southwest Airlines started flying slower about two months ago, and projects it will save $42 million in fuel this year by extending each flight by one to three minutes

Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 08:50AM by Registered CommenterHrush | Comments3 Comments

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Reader Comments (3)

Hi,
Very convenient. Surely would be appreciated by users. 2 feedbacks though:

1. Presently the hotel name search is available only to refine the output of search for city/date/etc. Why not extend this benefit to India Hotels search page

2. The Left hand refine search menu is now appearing as a constant upon scrolling down the page. The objective is gr8, but if the UI is enhanced to make it a separate entity which is constant, it would be more cohesive & noticeable.
May 12, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteraakriti
aakriti--thanks for the feedback, could you expand on point 2? It's not very clear what you mean.
May 12, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterHrush
@Hrush,
What I meant was, when we scroll down the search result page, the left hand refine search menu gets pulled down automatically, while shaking. If the UI can be improved to make it more obvious (to indicate, 1. this feature has been added for refining your options, & 2. the menu travels as you pull the page down) it would be gr8.

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May 15, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteraakriti

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