{"id":1787893,"date":"2019-10-07T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787893"},"modified":"2019-10-07T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:20:09","slug":"remember-mapquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/remember-mapquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember MapQuest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search Engine Land<\/a>: \u201cEarlier this week Mapquest was sold<\/a> by corporate parent Verizon to System1, an ad-tech company you\u2019ve probably never heard of for an undisclosed amount, which was \u2018not material enough for Verizon to file paperwork.\u2019 That\u2019s a metaphor for how far Mapquest has fallen since its heyday as the dominant online mapping site roughly a decade or so ago.\u201d Verizon got MapQuest as part of its purchase of AOL in 2015. [Brian<\/a>, James<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Search Engine Land: \u201cEarlier this week Mapquest was sold by corporate parent Verizon to System1, an ad-tech company you\u2019ve probably never heard of for an undisclosed amount, which was \u2018not material enough for Verizon to… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1787893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-industry","tag-mapquest","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1833230,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/07\/remembering-mapquest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787893,"position":0},"title":"Remembering MapQuest","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 July 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"The tenth installment of James Killick\u2019s \u201c12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World\u201d series focuses on a company James actually worked at: MapQuest, which grew very, very rapidly between its launch in 1996 (James outlines its antecedents) to its IPO and acquisition by AOL a few years later. 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