Expedia Unveils Customized Service

Expedia.com is introducing a service that allows travelers to set up customized searches for flights, hotels, vacation packages and travel deals and have the results automatically sent to them.

Using RSS technology, Expedia.com now provides customers who have personalized homepages, the Google homepage with the latest prices on trips they´re interested in, saving customers the time and trouble of making the same search over and over.

RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is an increasingly popular way for people to collect continuously updated information from various Web sites.

Many news organizations, blogs, and other sites provide RSS "feeds" that are picked up by personalized homepages.

By telling Expedia what destinations and types of trips they would like to monitor, travelers can receive up-to-date, customized travel information in one easy, accessible place, alongside their news headlines, weather updates and other personalized homepage information.

Expedia brings more variety, greater ease of use, personalized information about multiple destinations, and additional trip details, including hotel content, prices and star ratings.