Google Maps will be the leader of the virtual card service

According to research firm Hitwise, Google Maps service will soon completely take the leading position in the market ... The only competitor that has stayed with GoogleMaps - MapQuest, which is owned by AOL, substantially in the last year passed the position of having lost half the audience of about 20 %.

Just a year ago, the popularity of MapQuest exceeded the popularity of Google Maps on 429%. For 12 months the difference between them was reduced to 126 %, which secured the second position of Google popularity of the site of virtual cards.

Audience MapQuest over the past few years has remained completely static, but the sharp decline over the past half a year in conjunction with Google's growing audience of 7% for the half year, gives every reason to believe that soon Google Maps will take first place in popularity.

Next to the Google Maps services are traditionally Yahoo Maps and MSN Local Live, but their rates are very far from the dynamics shown Google.