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Go10000.com is a travel vertical or meta search engine based in Beijing, China. It was founded by George Cao (Cao Zhigang) in October 2004 and operates from the tenth floor of R&D Plaza, a startup farm just off Tsinghua University’s campus in northwestern Beijing [1]. Go10000 combines travel information of nearly 100 Chinese travel websites (but does not provide booking facilities) [2] and allows users to look at optimal booking lead times (the best time to book a flight for a given departure date) [3] for their journey. A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. ... Beijing (Chinese: ; pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; ; IPA: ), a city in northern China (formerly spelled in English as Peking or Peiking), is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Tsinghua University (Simplified Chinese: 清华大学; Traditional Chinese: 清華大學; pinyin: QÄ«nghuá Dàxué; Wade-Giles: Ching-hua Ta-hsüeh) is one of the most prestigious and selective universities in China. ... A computer reservations system, or CRS, is a computerized system used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to travel. ... Lead Time, in publishing, is a term for describing the amount of time that a journalist has between receiving a writing assignment, and submitting the completed piece. ...

External links

• Home page (Chinese)
• Article in eyefortravel.com
• Interview with George Cao