searchengineland.com - 2/14/2009
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Forthcoming January traffic data will reportedly show that Google Maps has taken the lead from MapQuest as the top mapping site in the US. According to the numbers that I received (from AOL; I’ve asked comScore to verify), MapQuest’s January monthly unique visitors were 41.5 million ...
smallbusinesssem.com - 2/14/2009
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smallbusinesssem.com —
Google Maps was the focus of one of
the opening sessions of SMX West . In addition...
to speakers like David Mihm and Steve Espinosa , Google’s Jennifer Chin was on the panel — you may know her better as “Maps Guide Jen” in the ...
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Google: Business Hijacking is Rare in Google Maps
seroundtable.com - 2/12/2009
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seroundtable.com —
Yesterday, we reported that Google's Local Business Center
was injected by escort services in the Google Maps...
results (by the way, it is still there). Today, I spotted a thread in Google Maps Help thread with a complaint from a...
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Google Maps Showing Adult Images From Panoramio
weblogs.hitwise.com - 2/11/2009
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February 11, 2009 Google Maps Edges Closer To
MapQuest 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 ...
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Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Hopkins - US: Google Maps ...
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Google Overtakes MapQuest for Maps Lead
Screenwerk —
... Forthcoming January traffic data will reportedly show that Google Maps has taken the lead from MapQuest as the top mapping site in the US. According to the numbers that I received (from AOL; I’ve asked comScore to verify), MapQuest’s January monthly unique visitors were 41.5 million and Google’s were 42.2 million.
This is the first time that Google Maps has overtaken MapQuest.
The rest of this post is at SEL.
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The Latest In Local Search - SMX West And More
Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing —
... Greg Sterling reveals that, as of January, Google Maps has just surpassed Mapquest as the web's #1 mapping entity. I commented on this at Greg's blog: ...
More Local Search Results in Google Maps
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... results that activates when there are more relevant results than we can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first page of business results on our map, we plot more of them as small circles. You can click on the circles to get more information about the businesses they represent. The top ten results will still appear in the left-hand pane and as pins on the map," mentions Google Lat-Long Blog. In other news, Google Maps is for the first time more popular in the US than MapQuest. According to comScore, Google Maps had 42.3 million ...
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comScore Comfirms Google Maps’ Lead
gesterling.wordpress.com 2/18/2009 — Here’s the graphic I got from comScore over the weekend:
Google: 42.3 million uniques
MapQuest: 41.5 million uniques
We’ll see if this holds over time.
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