As you might have seen we have started a new company called Kinkaa. While Kinkaa shares the same founders as Creative Weblogging - it's a separate company and has (slightly) different investors.

Kinkaa is a meta travel search engine that helps travelers find wonderful deals for travel products.

We currently launch Kinkaa in the US and Germany.

Here is how it works:

Kinkaa.com searches meta search engines such as Kayak, Sidestep, Mobissimo, Farechase and Expedia to get the best deal overview for you as a traveler. No need to manually compare all the sites. Once you have chosen one it forwards you to the search engine or if technically possible to the travel provider.

Kinkaa.de works a little different - it searches currently 50+ travel sites like airlines, travel consolidators, hotels, car rental agencies and packages trips (this is after all still a big portion of travel in Germany).

Kinkaa also offers some nice filtering options for your search like searches in airline names or a sorting of hotel stars for your money (i.e. how many stars one dollar buys you).

Kinkaa also keeps you up to date - so if you have $400 for the flight to Hawai in mind - you can subscribe to fare alert and we'll send you an email whenever we find flights from your airport to the specified airport in Hawaii. So you need to remember, come back and waste time.

Of course its all free and Kinkaa does not take any commissions. So we have no incentive to sell you sponsored deals. Kinkaa makes (or better will make) money from unobtrusive advertising.

Here is an excerpt of the press release that we are sending out today tomorrow:

Kinkaa.com the new travel search engine for Germany and the US

Hamburg, November 1st 2006 - Kinkaa.com, the new travel search engine, announced today the launch of its service in Germany and the USA. The new independent travel portal Kinkaa.com finds the best deals for travelers by searching at one click through over 100 online travel websites and portals. Dream beaches on Mauritius, adventures in Sweden or a business trip to New York.

The comfortable AJAX user interface makes travel search easy. Flights, hotels or vacation packages - Kinkaa scans multiple online travel websites for the best offers - including Ebookers, Expedia, SouthWest, HRS, Lufthansa, Travelocity, travelchannel, PriceGrabber and many more.

"As an independent search engine Kinkaa is an excellent platform for every travel option," states Torsten Jacobi, co-founder of Kinkaa. "Our new service makes the discovery and planning of your journey easy and transparent. The times of endless clicking through travel sites are over".

After today's launch of the service in Germany and the USA, Kinkaa will roll out its service in several European and Asian markets in the near future. The use of Kinkaa.com is free of charge.

For more information about Kinkaa, please visit http://www.kinkaa.com or the company blog at http://blog.kinkaa.com.

About Kinkaa
Founded in 2006, Kinkaa Limited is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and provides an unique online travel search engine in Germany and the USA. Expansions to Europe and Asia are planned. Kinkaa provides an overview of over 100 online travel services to leisure and corporate travelers, such as Expedia, Ebookers, HRS, Lastminute, Ltur, Lufthansa, Pricegrabber, SouthWest, Travelocity and travelchannel. Kinkaa is privately held and financed by experienced European entrepreneurs and business angels.

Media contacts:

*kulow kommunikation
Tina Kulow
Phone: +49-40-2351-7776
Email: tk@kulow-kommunikation.com

Kinkaa Limited
Torsten Jacobi
Phone: +49-40-180-574-53
Fax: +49-40- 492-193-35
Email:pr@kinkaa.com
Web: www.kinkaa.com

#Update - of course Kinkaa has a Corporate Blog in English and German as well :)