Expedia. Dot Com!

So, not even thinking about this assignment, last week I checked out expedia.com to see if I could leave town before a few papers, tests, and projects were due.  It was my first time using the site, and it left me with an "Eh, whatever" impression.  I feel that I got lucky in that my eyes looked at the left side of the page first because, had I not seen the place where I enter in my desired flight information, I would have been lost in the multitude of potential features.  However, someone over there had the idea to make every possible link look like an ad.  They assumed that because internet ads are catchy and make you look at them, that to make you look at the whole expedia page, everything needed to be shiny and have a picture.  Honestly, I don't care which hotel I stay in, I just booked an $8,500 trip to Hong Kong (that's JUST the flight.  Round trip.  I think my returning flight leaves before I can physically get there).  I didn't really have that much trouble with the interface itself, but the site was very cluttered and had a bunch of places to click that do not apply to me.  My experience was neither here nor there.

-Ben Reback