Hopkins said that, compared to last year, Google is now sending more traffic to Google Maps for high-volume generic terms such as “map” and “driving directions” and for variations on the ...

Before Google Maps and smartphones, people used printed maps, often from a site called MapQuest. What's happened to the company in the years since?

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 has 28 million monthly users around the world, and has more than 300 million MapQuest maps and directions printed each month.

Everyone is familiar with Google Maps, but once upon a time, it faced stiff competition from MapQuest. How did the product overtake the market?

Including navigation directions, that is, as DuckDuckGo has recently announced the debut of driving and walking modes on its web interface.

Here's our list of suggestions to improve Google Maps' driving directions on the app and website.

Last October, Google added new, eco-friendly driving directions to Maps. In the US, you could pull up a driving route that would take into account things like congestion and incline to find you ...