company industry travel website founded october 2001 headquarters newton massachusetts parent tripadvisor website www.seatguru.com seatguru.com is a website that features aircraft seat maps seat reviews and a color coded system to identify superior and substandard airline seats . it also features information about in flight amenities and airline specific information regarding check in baggage unaccompanied minors and traveling with infants and pets . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 references 4 external links history edit a sample seatguru seating chart that of a qantas 747 400 . in october 2001 frequent business traveler matthew daimler launched seatguru.com . each seat is color coded with green being a good seat red being a poor seat and yellow being a be aware seat meaning that there is some information that you should know about the seat less legroom etc. . since then seatguru has expanded to more than 700 aircraft seatmaps from more than 95 different airlines . in august 2003 seatguru.com was incorporated in seattle wa following the launch of google s adsense program . the adsense advertising platform helped seatguru monetize its website traffic . in february 2007 seatguru acquired the assets of lovemyseat.com . in march 2007 seatguru was purchased by tripadvisor . awards edit forbes top 12 travel sites travel leisure s top travel sites of 2008 webby awards nominee travel pc magazine top 100 kiplinger 25 best travel sites time 50 coolest websites 2006 travel yahoo pick of the day this article includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . august 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message references edit google adsense case study about seatguru tripadvisor acquires seatguru external links edit official website this article about a travel website is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seatguru & oldid 730640633 categories tripadvisortravel websitesinternet properties established in 2001website stubshidden categories articles lacking in text citations from august 2010all articles lacking in text citationsall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 july 2016 at 10 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view