Posts Tagged ‘ Maps ’
Google launched Street View to 10 Canadian cities last week. Our Canadian fast moving search terms report was filled with references to Street View. The #1 fast moving search term last week was “google street view” and 4 of the top 10 fast moving search terms related to the launch. The launch pushed up the [...][ READ MORE ]
Back in February, my colleague Heather Hopkins wrote about the shrinking gap in visits between the two leading online maps, Google Maps and MapQuest. As of the week ending April 11, 2009, Google Maps has now edged past MapQuest with a higher market share of visits. While the share of visits is higher for Google [...][ READ MORE ]
A few weeks ago I thought I was onto something very hot. I was getting ready to announce that Google Maps had caught up to MapQuest in share of US Internet visits. I decided to wait a week to be sure things held. Since then, MapQuest has regained its lead and is widening the gap [...][ READ MORE ]
Google Maps was just rated the leader in online mapping in a study by Cowen & Co. (as reported by Techcrunch). Despite being rated the leader in quality, Google Maps still trails MapQuest in share of US Internet visits. The following chart illustrates Google’s ascent nicely but also shows that MapQuest is by far the [...][ READ MORE ]
A “MapQuest Advocate” left a comment on my post about Google Maps closing the gap with MapQuest suggesting that Google Maps users are younger. I thought the assumption was interesting and worth checking. In fact, our data shows that in the four weeks to 9th February 2007, US visitors to Google Maps were OLDER than [...][ READ MORE ]
I took a look at traffic to Maps websites after hearing repeatedly over the holidays that people didn’t need directions as they would use Mapquest, Google Maps or GPS. With the rise of GPS, I wondered if traffic to Maps websites was on the decline and also wondered whether Google Maps was making much headway. [...][ READ MORE ]
