Totally agreed. I also lost a little respect for Hipmunk when I found out they are basically an exact copy of ITA's app: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/search.htm.
ITA's app doesn't seem nearly as useful to me for a few reasons:
1) The form at the beginning is much more confusing. Creating a search with Hipmunk is much less complicated.
2) Flights are ordered by price, whereas Hipmunk orders them by "agony", which in my experience, seems to be pretty accurate.
3) Doesn't default to time bar mode, like Hipmunk does.
1) The form at the beginning is much more confusing. Creating a search with Hipmunk is much less complicated. 2) Flights are ordered by price, whereas Hipmunk orders them by "agony", which in my experience, seems to be pretty accurate. 3) Doesn't default to time bar mode, like Hipmunk does.