• TechCrunch, Friday, September 9, 2011 12:56 PM

Two ex-Googlers on Friday debuted a new mobile travel guide, which -- in true Google form -- aims to organize the world of disparate travel information, and, of course, make it easily searchable. The new service, Triposo, "is based on the simple idea that travel guides can be designed in the same way that Google based its aggregation and search on some kick-ass algorithms," writes TechCrunch. "And a little bit of indexing and semantic icing to boot."

Sites like Wikipedia, Wikitravel and Openstreetmap have limitless quantities of travel-related content, and Triposo wants to be the site that ranks that content so well you'll never have to use another preachy, paper-based travel book, TechCrunch explains.

The brainchild of Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, Triposo takes travel information from seven of the biggest open source aggregators -- along with several closed resources -- and serves its users with content that its algorithm thinks is relevant for them.

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