KAYAK vs Google

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Google leads in AI visibility (95 vs 91)

KAYAK

LeaderTravel & Hospitality

Metasearch

Leading travel metasearch engine owned by Booking Holdings; searches 100s of sites for flights, hotels, cars. Operates KAYAK, Momondo, and HotelsCombined.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A91
Category Rank
#1 of 2
AI Consensus
64%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
86
Perplexity
99
Gemini
92

About

KAYAK is a travel metasearch engine founded in 2004 by Steve Hafner and Paul English, acquired by Booking Holdings (then Priceline Group) for $1.8B in 2013. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, KAYAK aggregates flight, hotel, car rental, and vacation package results from hundreds of travel sites, enabling one-click comparison shopping. Its product suite includes KAYAK.com, the Momondo brand (acquired 2017), HotelsCombined, and a business travel management platform, KAYAK for Business.\n\nKAYAK's revenue model is primarily CPC (cost-per-click), charging airlines, OTAs, and hotels for qualified referrals rather than taking a booking commission. This metasearch model positions KAYAK as a neutral aggregator rather than a competing OTA, though it also offers direct booking through its platform in select categories. KAYAK for Business targets corporate travel managers with policy controls and expense integrations.\n\nAs a wholly owned subsidiary of Booking Holdings ($26.9B revenue FY2025), KAYAK does not report standalone financials. It remains one of the most visited travel websites globally, with over 300 million monthly searches across its brand portfolio. KAYAK's AI trip-planning features and integration with Booking.com inventory have strengthened its position as a one-stop travel research tool heading into 2026.

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Google

LeaderConsumer Technology

LLM Platform

Gemini 3 Ultra outperforms on major benchmarks; Gemini chatbot 750M MAU; AI Overviews reaches 2B monthly users. Google Cloud Vertex AI serves Anthropic + Meta. $2B invested in Anthropic; deep integration of AI across Search, Workspace, Android.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A95
Category Rank
#3 of 8
AI Consensus
100%
Trend
down
Per Platform
ChatGPT
99
Perplexity
99
Gemini
99

About

Google is a Mountain View, California-based global technology company — the world's dominant search engine and digital advertising platform — operating Google Search (the most visited website on the internet, processing 8.5 billion+ searches daily), YouTube (2+ billion monthly users, the world's second-largest search engine), Google Ads (the dominant digital advertising marketplace), Android (3 billion+ device operating system), and Google Cloud (the #3 cloud platform). Part of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Google generated $350+ billion in consolidated Alphabet revenue in fiscal year 2024 with Google Services (Search + YouTube + Google Network) contributing approximately $285 billion.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

91
Overall Score
95
#1
Category Rank
#3
64
AI Consensus
100
up
Trend
down
86
ChatGPT
99
99
Perplexity
99
92
Gemini
99
84
Claude
99
87
Grok
99

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

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Metasearch
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LLM Platform
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