Thanks for the bug report.

We have an algorithm that looks at a large number of factors (number of reviews, each reviewer's unique denotation system, number of hotels in a destination, sentiment, etc) and calculates the number.

We'll be growing, don't worry. Today is day two. :)

What do you mean?

Yeah, that's so weird! We've heard that from a few people. We're currently looking into it. Neither of us can find any history of the domain being used for anything adult or porn related. So strange.

It looks like the domain had three eras. It was parked for a while, then it was taken over by domainauctionhouse.com, and now you guys.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040601000000*/http://tripexpert...

The domainauctionhouse page had a link to domains for sale, which had an Adult section. Maybe the links to domains with bad words in them caused it to end up on filters.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205024618/http://www.domaina...

Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely still working on perfecting the search, so this is helpful.

My co-founder and I actually met at a hackathon a few years ago and worked on an early version of the site. It's very exciting to finally launch!

My co-founder Andrew is a lawyer-turned-developer. I'm a former tech journalist (Laptop Mag, The Verge).

Who did the design? Also, a little usability tip: When a user clicks on "Price" to sort, I think most users expect to see the lowest price first. You have it sorted by highest price first. I would reverse that.

Also, I noticed the lowest price hotels often don't have a great score (around 60-70). Do you only list hotels that hit a certain score threshold (meaning, as a user, can I trust that no matter what hotel shows up in your listings, it means I can expect a good stay?) - or do I still need to be wary of the scores and avoid ones with low points?

Our designer was someone that my co-founder had worked with before. And thanks for the tip about price sorting.

We don't list any hotels with a score lower than 60, which means every hotel is a quality hotel.

Do you mind sharing a link to your designer?

Very good stuff. Good luck with everything, seems like you guys know what you're doing.

Yup, we've got an API. Shoot me an email at dann@tripexpert.com!

Meh, just like a Paypal debit card.

It's exactly the same. You have to add money from your other cards/accounts to the wallet balance (aka paypal balance) then you spend it from there.

So how long does it take for your google wallet balance to pull money from your other accounts or transfer the funds?

This would be innovative, if you could spend money on it, then choose from which account you want it to be deducted ex post facto, and if you don't choose within 24 hours then it gets deducted from your default account. While this might be cool, google would be assuming a large amount of risk.

If this was the first event after Jobs' death, your point would be more valid.

It's a trajectory. Look at Apple before Jobs' return and the time it took to turn the company around. Now, that trajectory has changed, and this moment may well be the inflection point.

I second the recommendation for Nathan Barry's book Authority.