Online mapping sites popularity
Published Monday, November 28, 2005 by CCAer | E-mail this post
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recent story in any number of papers looks at a recent survey by
comScore Media Metrix that lists
Mapquest as a market leader in the online mapping sector with 71% of visitors in September, followed by
Yahoo! Maps at 32% and
Google Maps with 25%. Compare this to a
Hitwise survey in July that listed
Yahoo! Maps with 41% of the market and
MapQuest with 33%. Neither survey is accessible enough to be able to determine how the survey was conducted or what measures were used. Nor do the associated news stories provide enough background. In the end, these news stories and surveys need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Agree completely with your observations. For example nobody in their right mind would use mapquest, yahoo or google for searches in Switzerland. instead 99% (example) would go to http://map.search.ch/.
X in Zurich