{"id":147,"date":"2007-03-21T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-03-21T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T17:13:06","slug":"mapping-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/mapping-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Market Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Coad at the Complete.com Blog has an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2007\/03\/20\/maps-services-mapquest-google-maps-yahoo-maps\/\">interesting summary of Map Provider Market share<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/CC-Maps-Graph-1.1.gif\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>His conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Though traffic is down more than 20% from it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s peak in June, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/\">MapQuest <\/a>remains the king of online map services with over twice the traffic of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nearest competitor. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Map\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/a>functionality has allowed it to nearly double in size since January 2006. Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s service is quickly gaining ground on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s similar offering<\/a>, and also shirking seasonal trends. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.live.com\/\">Live Search<\/a>* has been gaining significant traction: coming out of beta in September, it has since grown to twice the size of well established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randmcnally.com\/\">RandMcNally<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He also has very interesting data on the different ways that the services are used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Coad at the Complete.com Blog has an interesting summary of Map Provider Market share. His conclusions: Though traffic is down more than 20% from it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s peak in June, MapQuest remains the king of online map services with over twice the traffic of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nearest competitor. 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