Comments on: MapQuest Dropping Local Blog Support

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 19, 2010

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 19, 2010 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:02:20 +0000

[...] MapQuest Dropping Local Blog Support, Hyperlocal Blogger [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:12:31 +0000

I guess HLB readers would have to answer that directly, but I can say this in regards to the larger population:

MapQuest is the #2 mapping site behind Google Maps (according to comScore and others who chart such stuff). And, on a more anecdotal level, earlier this year while I was speaking at a local SEO conference, I asked an audience of about 60 people who used Google Maps and who used MapQuest. It was about 50/50.

By: TR @ WSB

TR @ WSB — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:44:33 +0000

I don’t ask this to be snarky – this is a sincere question: Does anyone out there in your readership routinely use Mapquest? I don’t know a soul or a site that doesn’t use Google Maps … well, the occasional Yahoo! Map. But very occasional. Don’t really know who has the best features, just know that Google works well and is part of the biggest search engine in the world blah blah blah. So does everyone in Patch (which is creeping this way, having posted editor jobs this week for Bainbridge Island and Bellevue) have to use Mapquest?