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Sunday, July 23. 2006

The New York Times Chimes In on Web Mapping Sites

The NYT leads its Monday Technology article with a comparison of the three major mapping portals -- Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and MapQuest.

In the Race With Google, It's Consistency vs. 'Wow'

"But today, Google Maps still does not offer some of the pedestrian conveniences of Yahoo Maps and MapQuest from AOL. For example, it does not remember addresses, so users need to tell it where they live every time they want driving directions."


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Posted by Atanas Entchev at 19:13 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Actually, the article is more about the general search situation - who is going after Wow and who is not.
#1 Anon (Link) on 2006-07-24 06:19 (Reply)
Google Maps did start remembering the user's home address sometime in the past couple of weeks.
#2 Tim (Link) on 2006-07-24 07:44 (Reply)
Actually this is the most enlightening part of the article...

"Sometimes this penchant for speed and innovation can cause Google to zoom past the basics. When asked about the lack of an address book in Google Maps in an interview last fall, Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for search products and user experience, said it was a gap in the product. She said it was much easier to get the company's engineers to spend time developing pioneering new technology than a much more prosaic address storage system."
#3 Jeremy (Link) on 2006-07-24 13:32 (Reply)

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