Travel search engine Sprice.com has signed a deal with multi-lingual portal Oneindia.in to power its hotel search.
Published: 18 Dec 2008
Travel search engine Sprice.com has signed a deal with multi-lingual portal Oneindia.in to power its hotel search.
The offer will be extended to the visitors of Oneindia.in regional language portals in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.
With this tie-up, the travel search engine is targeting the Internet users who prefer to consume online media in their respective languages.
Services of Oneindia.in, launched in 2000, include classifieds, a mobile portal (Oneindia.mobi), free SMS alerts (news and entertainment), apps for social networking, bookmarking, widgets/gadgets etc. in five Indian languages.
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