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Whither Mapquest? The service is still No. 1, with 41% of all visits to mapping sites in the last week, compared with 35% for Google Maps and 11% for Yahoo Maps, according to research firm Hitwise.
MapQuest has stopped Google Maps' market share gains for the time being. But Google Maps increasingly benefits from Google search results. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...
MapQuest on Monday took the wraps off a new application for iPhone users designed as an alternative to the built-in Google Maps software and billed as a "leap forward in how people interact with ...
But others say it may be too little, too late. “MapQuest to Google is like MySpace to Facebook,” said Roger Kay, a technology analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates.
AOL's MapQuest does as well but looks much more cluttered. Yahoo Maps has a cleaner appearance but only does driving directions. These competitors, however, have yet to match Google's vast "Ground ...
Google Maps and MapQuest are neck-and-neck in the fight to be the most popular US mapping site. A new report issued today from Hitwise shows the continuing ascent of Google Maps and the ...
ComScore shows that Google Maps surpassed Mapquest last January, and by August, 2009, Google Maps had 51.3 million unique visitors, compared to 42.2 million for MapQuest.
Google Inc.’s Maps application is making headway against the No. 1 map Web site, MapQuest, according to an analyst from Hitwise Pty., which examines Internet usage data. A year ago, the number ...
In a move not unlike the “Send2Car” feature on the Dash Express GPS navigator, Garmin has worked it so that people using Google Maps and MapQuest will easily be able to send the address they ...
Google is the top referral sources for both websites, but is considerably higher for Google Maps with 61% last week while the share of visits referred to MapQuest was 25%.
Google Maps is our top choice, considering its large and accurate data set, in addition to transit directions. Waze is a good turn-by-turn navigation app, and the extra traffic data could be ...
Whereas printed MapQuest directions and TomTom devices once reigned supreme, Google Maps is now the top choice for many when it comes to GPS navigation. The product was released in February 2005 ...