MapQuest has forestalled Google Maps' steady encroachment on its online mapping market share over 2008--for now. "In late December, it looked like Google Maps was ready to overtake MapQuest," said ...

"In the past four weeks, 23.31% of Google Maps' search traffic was paid compared to 12.19% for MapQuest," she says. Read the whole story at Hitwise Intelligence » search Comment Next story loading ...

Google is the top referral sources for both websites, but is considerably higher for Google Maps with 61% last week while the share of visits referred to MapQuest was 25%.

Google Inc.’s Maps application is making headway against the No. 1 map Web site, MapQuest, according to an analyst from Hitwise Pty., which examines Internet usage data. A year ago, the number ...

MapQuest, although redesigned last year, is still chocked full of ads, frames and other design flaws which make the overall mapping experience a bit more difficult to navigate than Google Maps.

Google Maps and MapQuest are neck-and-neck in the fight to be the most popular US mapping site. A new report issued today from Hitwise shows the continuing ascent of Google Maps and the ...

ComScore shows that Google Maps surpassed Mapquest last January, and by August, 2009, Google Maps had 51.3 million unique visitors, compared to 42.2 million for MapQuest.

Whither Mapquest? The service is still No. 1, with 41% of all visits to mapping sites in the last week, compared with 35% for Google Maps and 11% for Yahoo Maps, according to research firm Hitwise.

MapQuest on Monday took the wraps off a new application for iPhone users designed as an alternative to the built-in Google Maps software and billed as a "leap forward in how people interact with ...

On the iPhone, Apple Maps and Google Maps app have gotten all the headlines over the last several years, but MapQuest is still hanging in there, despite a lack of real innovation over the years ...

Rumor has it that Google is working on a native iOS Google Maps app. In the meantime, however, you can use the Web-based, HTML5 app instead, which can be pinned to the Springboard.

Cowen & Co. recently ranked Google Maps as the best online mapping tool in terms of quality -- but when it comes to traffic, AOL's MapQuest is still king. Nearly half of all map-seekers head to ...