Find Travel Deals Using Advanced Google Search
Here’s a tip I’ve been using with great success that I want to share with Beat of Hawaii readers:
Google Advanced Search can yield superior results that help you find the best travel deals.
Don’t stop at just a Basic Search which may still be a good starting point to find deals in any market, be they for airfares, hotels, car rentals, theater tickets and more.
1. Advanced search highlights.
Here’s how to do it:
Take for example a search for Hawaii hotel deals. A basic Google search will yield results that are all over the map. It’s hard to find things of value without wasting a lot of time sorting through the results. On the first page alone, these include
- TripAdvisor reviews.
- Posts up to 1 1/2 years old.
- A plethora of Splogs (advertising spam blogs).
When I change the date criteria, however, the search results are vastly different and improved. In this instance I changed the date criteria to be for items within the past week. Here’s what I got:
- Kauai Grant Hyatt special offers.
- Third night free offer on Hotel Chatter.
- Yahoo travel package deals.
- Expedia Hawaii deals.
- And two Beat of Hawaii posts on hotel deals.
2. Revised advanced search.
When I’m in active trip planning mode, as I have been recently, there are certain things I want to look at daily. So I use the same advanced search as above, but change the criteria from “past week” to “past 24 hours.” That way I only have to sort through what’s new since I last checked (which in this case was yesterday).
Let me know if this helps with your travel searches. It has really improved them for me.
