Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
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Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#2Take that Cory Doctrow [0]
[0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#3Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#4Take that Cory Doctrow [0] [0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html
I think Cory would be surprised to see how many Mapquest referrers show up in the referrer logs of brick-and-mortar businesses.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#5They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps.
People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#6> In 2019, Verizon sold MapQuest to internet advertising company System1.
It's ad companies all the way down.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#7They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
>Startpage.com
I thought that was still the best way to get anonymous google index search results?
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#8They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
Dogpile?!? There's a name I haven't heard in what feels like 20 years.
The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#9On the back of a cocktail napkin, I drew a map of you...
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#10They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
They forgot to scoop up mapbalst!
never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!)