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MapQuest Versus The Mapping Upstarts
Competitors Nip at MapQuest’s Biz from the Associated Press looks at how mapping leader MapQuest, owned by AOL, is being threatened by…
Blog On French Search Industry
Via Xooglers, former Googler Franck Poisson is running a French-language blog that covers the search industry, obviously of interest to anyone watching…
Travel Searchers Still Hitting General Search Engines
Partnerships are key to online travel search survival from Reuters covers some stats and developments with travel search. Only 6.5 percent of…
The Google Maps API Gets Its Own Blog
Via GB and dirson, word of yet another blog from Google devoted to a specific Google tool or service. This time it’s…
Mashups a Go-Go! New Mashups from MSN Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps
It’s good to see more map mashups coming from developers working with both MSN Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps. Here’s a look…
Travel Search Player SideStep and Amazon.com Announce Partnership
Over at Clickz, Pam Parker reports on a new partnership between Amazon.com and travel search aggregator, SideStep in the article: Amazon, SideStep…
Warning! The World In Google Maps May Be Bigger Than You Think
Just because I’m feeling kind of punchy, does anyone else think it’s odd that you can convince Google Maps that the world…
Getting the Airfare Buzz from Kayak.com
Kayak Buzz from travel search engine/aggregator Kayak allows the searcher to see what are the “‘best fares'” to the most searched destinations…
Yahoo Maps Adds New Features and Tools
Yahoo has upgraded its Maps service, integrating local search results and adding a lot of cool “wow” factors to the service. They’ve…
MapStats Wins MS Virtual Earth Contest
I was just was reading the Via Virtual Earth site and noticed that a winner has been announced in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth…