The document outlines several hack ideas for search and marketplaces including: 1) Conducting vertical intent search to provide a common search experience across different categories like shopping, travel, autos, and real estate. 2) Displaying lists of on-road facilities, tourist spots, and other points of interest along routes on a map. 3) Developing social trip planning tools that utilize travel, geo, and deals APIs to suggest budget-friendly travel options. 4) Creating algorithms to recommend birthday gifts for friends based on their shopping interests and online activity.

1. Hack Ideas
Search & Marketplaces
Rohit Agarwal
rohitra@yahoo-inc.com

2. Search
• Search Direct: Display results as the user is
typing by taking context from the page.
• Vertical Intent Search: Provide common search
experience across different verticals
(Shopping, Travel, Autos, Real Estate, Deals).
Example – Apple, Kingfisher

3. Listings, Geo & Local
• Map: Displaying list of on-road facilities(restaurants, fuel pumps, cities etc.) or tourist spots
available along the route.
• Travel: Social Trip Planning. Use travel, geo, deals api. Come up with budgeting algo
(Airfares, Hotels etc.)
• Shopping: Suggest b’day gift options from the shopping inventory for a friend with an algorithm
which can take the friend's recent item searches, interests from Facebook, Twitter etc.
• Local: Crowd sourced/personalized local data. Using map, users plot and create local entities, pull in
photos geo tagged with that location, four-square check-in information and so on.
• Autos: Mobile app which lets user post easy reviews (using sliders) about cars they are test driving.

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