Comments on: Mapping Marketshare: Maps Up, Mapquest Down & Yahoo Local is UP! http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Mapping Marketshare Details | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216694 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Mapping Marketshare Details | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:20:16 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216694 [...] week in, Mapping Marketshare: Maps Up, Mapquest Down & Yahoo Local is UP! a reader noted that it was unfair comparing Yahoo Maps with Google Maps since Yahoo split out Maps [...] [...] week in, Mapping Marketshare: Maps Up, Mapquest Down & Yahoo Local is UP! a reader noted that it was unfair comparing Yahoo Maps with Google Maps since Yahoo split out Maps [...]

]]> By: Heather Hopkins http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216665 Heather Hopkins Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:49:32 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216665 Stephen, you make a good point. I have forwarded an updated chart to Mike that shows MapQuest, Google Maps and the combined Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Maps on a chart. This might make a good update. At Hitwise, we try to report each domain separately but because of how Google Maps reports its local results we can no longer separately report the Google Local traffic. Also, FYI, the percentages look a bit different in the new chart. This is because the traffic share is provided among All Categories of websites rather than among just Maps websites. Thanks, Heather Stephen, you make a good point. I have forwarded an updated chart to Mike that shows MapQuest, Google Maps and the combined Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Maps on a chart. This might make a good update.

At Hitwise, we try to report each domain separately but because of how Google Maps reports its local results we can no longer separately report the Google Local traffic.

Also, FYI, the percentages look a bit different in the new chart. This is because the traffic share is provided among All Categories of websites rather than among just Maps websites.

Thanks, Heather

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216134 Mike Blumenthal Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:46:22 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216134 That's an interesting point that I didn't realize. Although it still have validity in a relative sense particularly looking at the comparison over time. It doesn't speak to Yahoo's total strength but it does speak to Mapquest's decline in the mapping arena.\ Mike That’s an interesting point that I didn’t realize.

Although it still have validity in a relative sense particularly looking at the comparison over time. It doesn’t speak to Yahoo’s total strength but it does speak to Mapquest’s decline in the mapping arena.\

Mike

]]> By: Stephen Espinosa http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216132 Stephen Espinosa Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:39:17 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216132 The thing I hate about these stats is that it only sites maps.yahoo.com which is just the maps portion of yahoo not the local section which is at local.yahoo.com, but for google they use maps.google.com which accounts for all maps and local searches. So I can't see that these stats are super reliable until they merge local.yahoo.com and maps.yahoo.com to get real statistics. It has always bugged me that they always do this, perhaps it is because I am an Yahoo! Evangelist, lol. The thing I hate about these stats is that it only sites maps.yahoo.com which is just the maps portion of yahoo not the local section which is at local.yahoo.com, but for google they use maps.google.com which accounts for all maps and local searches. So I can’t see that these stats are super reliable until they merge local.yahoo.com and maps.yahoo.com to get real statistics. It has always bugged me that they always do this, perhaps it is because I am an Yahoo! Evangelist, lol.

]]> By: ‘Ten Pack’ Boosts Google Maps Traffic « Screenwerk http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216105 ‘Ten Pack’ Boosts Google Maps Traffic « Screenwerk Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:30:57 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/25/mapping-marketshare-maps-up-mapquest-down-yahoo-local-is-up/#comment-216105 [...] has a related post showing traffic comparisons for the four major mapping sites, reflecting the continuing growth of [...] [...] has a related post showing traffic comparisons for the four major mapping sites, reflecting the continuing growth of [...]

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