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 ...

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%.

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 a move not unlike the “Send2Car” feature on the Dash Express GPS navigator, Garmin has worked it so that people using Google Maps and MapQuest will easily be able to send the address they ...

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 ...

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, 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.

Last year, the Google Maps smartphone app had an average of 68.6 million U.S. mobile users a month, while Apple’s Maps app attracted nearly 32 million monthly users, according to research firm ...

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 ...

MapQuest arguably made digital mapping popular, but Google Maps finally caught up with its then-biggest competitor in 2008, as noted by Business Insider at the time.

The Cayman Islands telecommunications company said the Send-To-Garmin feature will be available on Google Maps on April 1 and will be available on MapQuest sometime in April.