Our Site
Domains
Funny Names by Engineers
Testing
Fun Features
100
A diminutive name representing the sections of our website.
What is a servlet?
100
TripAdvisor has 30 of these, for different countries and languages
What is a POS (Point of Sale)?
100
Possibly named by a thirsty engineer, this pair of servers hosts many of our internal tools.
What are Gin and Tonic?
100
The pair of orthogonal divisions of our site that we use to test new features
What are pools and slices?
100
A row of filters representing different kinds of accommodations
What are the Style Buttons?
200
The most important (and most popular) section of the site
What is the /Hotel_Review servlet?
200
Not to be confused with the fruit, this acronym represents our four largest European markets
What is FIGS (France, Italy, Germany, Spain)?
200
The server hosting our list of upcoming and past projects.
What is Dingo?
200
The program that allows us to view and report on our tests and on site performance.
What is Visual Science?
200
The set of top phrases found in a property's reviews
What is Review Summarization?
300
The page for an individual forum thread on our site
What is the /ShowTopic servlet?
300
The domains created after our initial six
What is FIGS+ or the New POS?
300
The server hosting a monstrous list of known issues for our site or tools.
What is Bugzilla?
300
Besides the desktop website, these are the two most important client types.
What are tablet and mobile?
300
Through a partnership with Facebook, this feature enables us to recognize and customize our website for users without a TripAdvisor membership
What is Instant Personalization?
400
The only part of the site localized by country and by traffic source
What is the /SmartDeals servlet?
400
Our one RTL (Right-to-left) domain
What is .com.eg (Egypt)?
400
Continuing the tradition of lapine names, this set of servers hosts our PRERELEASE site
What is Hare?
400
Also sometimes known as Single Page Abandon, this is the primary user experience measurement of our visitors impression of our site
What is Bounce Rate?
400
The section of our site allows users to find hotels for their exact travel dates
What is the /HAC? servlet?
500
The pages hosting detailed review content
What is the /ShowUserReview servlet?
500
The three country sites that use the abnormal structure __.tripadvisor.com
What are th. (Thailand), no. (Norway), and pl. (Poland)?
500
This nest of data access is similar to SQL and rests on top of our HADOOP cluster of data servers
What is Hive?
500
Historically, our most important revenue metric
What is CPC per Session?
500
A module that not only keeps track of properties you've seen so far for you, but suggests other properties based on your interests
What is the Recently Viewed module?
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