Googl travel dates

[themegroup]

I have just noticed, while checking where our hotel clients rank for certain keywords, and noticed a panel on the left hand side called Travel dates. There was a check in and check out option which could be populated manually or by using a drop down calendar. But there's no submit button or anything like that. What is this panel for, and can any benefit be had from it, because from what I can see it doesn't actually do anything (unless it's not displaying properly on my computer?

[RyanKent]

Where exactly did you notice this calendar?

I tried searching "London hotels" in Google and did not see any calendar.

[themegroup]

Hi Ryan,

The option comes up when I search for 'hotels near henley', but I also didn't get it when looking for London hotels, which probably implies it's tied to certain searches that are more specific than just having hotel in them, which seems odd. You'd think if there was a use they for them, they would be in all travel-based enquiries?

[RyanKent]

I tried searching "hotels near henley" in both google.com and google.co.uk. I did not see a calendar for either search.

What exact tool are you using for your search? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Another search engine? Which country location is your search based on? .com? .co.uk? Something else?

[themegroup]

What if you paste this into the address bar?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=9W5&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&biw=938&bih=816&q=hotels+near+henley&aq=f&aqi=g6g-v4&aql=&oq=

[RyanKent]

I tried the link you offered. The search works fine but I do not see any calendar. I tried in both FF and IE. I am not using any pop-up nor ad blocking software.

The left sidebar shows "Everything, Images, Videos, News, Shopping, More" then below that there is a "Search Near" box and a "The Web - pages from UK" widget. No calendar.

[themegroup]

That's very odd then. When I get a mo, I'll do a screen grab so you can see what I'm seeing, but that may not be until Monday.

[RyanKent]

Is it possible your browser has a plug-in related to travel?

[KeriMorgret]

This was a new product that launched in July. More information about the launch is available at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389441,00.asp#fbid=3l_OuvCiiLd.

[RyanKent]

Thanks for the link Keri. Apparently the feature has not been fully implemented as of yet.