China's version of Kayak is looking to New York for its IPO


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People scoffed at travel metasearch for years, denigrating its viability as a business model. But as travel inspiration and social travel sites have come and gone, travel metasearch has kept on expanding, as Qunar's plans highlight.

Qunar, China's largest travel website, could soon join the ranks of fellow travel metasearch site Kayak on the public markets. Various media reports say Beijing-based Qunar, which is majority owned by China's dominant search engine, Baidu, coul