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Revisionist history. What mapping service was comparable the day google maps launched? MapQuest? lmao.
by sebastos 6y ago
Revisionist history. What mapping service was comparable the day google maps launched? MapQuest? lmao.
- onion2k 6y agoMultimap was quite good. I remember integrating it in to a few sites in the very early 2000s. It wasn't quite as dynamic as Google Maps but it definitely worked pretty well. It was eventually bought by Microsoft and became Bing Maps.
- s3r3nity 6y agoActually yes - if you look at articles at the time, Mapquest was leading the antitrust charge against Google because the latter had JUST launched and yet was surfacing above Mapquest in rankings. And when GMaps first started, it wasn’t the beast that it was today; sure it had some nifty UX improvements, but it was nothing close to competitors in the space at the time.