Santa Clara, Calif. -- SideStep, a Santa Clara-based online travel search company, said on Tuesday that it has acquired San Mateo-based TravelPost.com, an independently owned site for hotel reviews and ratings. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. SideStep said that the deal will couple its online travel information with TravelPost.com's lodging content, which includes nearly 500,000 reviews, photos and blogs. TravelPost.com allows site users to search reviews by age, gender, purpose of stay and travel budget. The reviews are integrated with a travel blogging community, in which travelers write about their experiences, post photos from their trips, and keep track of where they've traveled on an interactive world map.
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