Circos

Circos lets you find "funky hotels with internet access in New York". It crawls user reviews for keywords and uses those for filtering and comparison.
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010_circos_home
Circos is a new hotel and restaurant search site with user-friendly filtering.
2008-01-28

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010_circos_home
Circos Home Page is clean and conversational. I want hotels located in NYC that are funky and have internet access.
020_circos_search
You can add your own keywords in the search but they won't necessarily be searched on (bathrobes).
021_circos_refine1
You can get an entire list of the keywords they support to describe the sense of place.
030_circos_results
The search was limited to just funky hotels in NYC. Notice this isn't a semantic search as it's just matching against keywords. "No funky smells" is not the sense of funky that is implied in the search.
040_circos_compare
The UI for the compare is relatively straight-forward (which is surprising in how difficult that can be). Very simple comparison results are probably very useful.
050_circos_refine2
The refinement is not always terribly relevant - all restaurants have bathrooms.