Google's Move To Taking over the Internet
It looks like Google is expanding it's services by providing their own version of Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps. We may be waving Goodbye Mapquest (by Jeremy Zawodny) in the near future. The site is still in Beta form, but from just a few minutes of playing with it, there are some quite cool features:
- Google Maps have much larger maps than other sites
- I think much clearer maps to read
- Can get maps by searching just near an area, as opposed to a specific address or intersection
- You can click at each direction step and a pop up of that specific direction is blown up
- You can drag the US Map and move it around once you have your directions, as opposed to waiting for the constant refreshes like the other map sites
The verdict isn't out, but I like what I've seen so far. I'll need to play with it some more . . .
Comments
I have been using it all week and I can say that I am impressed. There a few things that make Mapquest better, but Mapquest's UI is dated. Hopefully Google will integrate some kind of traffic data in the future. For now I will use my
GPS. There is also a good
article on how they pull it off.
Posted by: Hill | February 10, 2005 09:01 PM
Prall, I like the fact that you were wise enough to put your 'Links' in alphabetical order, now if you could be so kind as to do the same for your 'Favorite Bloggers', that'd be greeeaaaat.
Posted by: chuckie | February 10, 2005 09:33 PM
Very neat - thanks for bringing it to my attention
Posted by: Guy Prall | February 11, 2005 09:27 AM