Some web sites release new features on holidays and have clever blog posts that talk about their new features in a cleverly contextual way. Here at good old kayak.com, we don’t quite have that holiday synchronization technology yet, but we have our best nerds brilliant computer scientists researching it as we speak.

In the meantime, a quick check of Wikipedia shows that today is Fat Thursday, which sounds like a pretty stylin’ day for some new features. Kayakians, gorge yourself silly on these tasty morsels:

Blog! Yes, we have a blog now! (Yeah, we know, welcome to 2003.) This should be a much more exciting, efficient and (dare I say it) fun-tastic (HA! I said it!) way to keep you apprised of all thing things Kayak: new features, newsletters, company events, etc. Well, all the things except those about actual kayaks. You know, the boats.

Layover filtering! You asked for it! We made it! You can instantly hide flights that have you spending hours strolling ORD.

More searching! It’s Fat Thursday, baby! 3 more Accor chains (Novotel, Ibis, Mercure); Travelfusion (UK);

It’s all purty! Don’t tell me you didn’t notice our sweet rounded corners!

Sitemap! Yep, got one. Welcome to 1994!

Pin flights across searches! If you know what that means, you are a hard core Kayak user. We love you, too.

Details, details. Number of seats available on most flights shown in details area (US).

Speed! Our speed guru, Borne (his actual name) did some major tweaking, shaving seconds off of our quarter-mile time. Something about CSS compression and a Nitrous kit.

We’re working on big stuff, really huge, in the coming months. Hook your feed reader to this space, and keep apace.

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