Comments on: Yahoo Maps Get Aggressive: Adds Driving Directions & Community Search! http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Piyush Gupta http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/comment-page-1/#comment-4450 Piyush Gupta Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:42:19 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/#comment-4450 Today its only CE Infosystems which has PAN India data and the major source of their revenue. If they refuse to share this with others especially big giants like Yahoo, this will force players like Yahoo to create PAN India data (that too with consumer product focus which CE Info. lacks even now). Google seems to be already doing that. NavTech and TeleAtlas too are coming to India soon. Therefore, it was a very wise decision to share the data with Yahoo. Their business focus is only overlapped a bit by Yahoo kind of companies and hence its not the greed for few $ but the whole business. Today its only CE Infosystems which has PAN India data and the major source of their revenue. If they refuse to share this with others especially big giants like Yahoo, this will force players like Yahoo to create PAN India data (that too with consumer product focus which CE Info. lacks even now). Google seems to be already doing that. NavTech and TeleAtlas too are coming to India soon. Therefore, it was a very wise decision to share the data with Yahoo.

Their business focus is only overlapped a bit by Yahoo kind of companies and hence its not the greed for few $ but the whole business.

]]> By: Rajiv Dingra http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/comment-page-1/#comment-2625 Rajiv Dingra Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:09:45 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/#comment-2625 Yes i know about that. But as a user these sites become destination sites to check on a particular location especially when you are travelling to a city first time. For example i am travelling to chennai and wanted to know the distance between kilpauk and mahabalipuram and i went to mapmyindia as i knew about the brand. But there will be many users who will use yahoo maps. These are potential customers that mapmyindia is loosing by providing maps to yahoo. Yahoo in turn is increasing its brand value in the eyes of users. In my eyes Mapmyindia and yahoo are competitors even though mapmyindia's parent co powers the maps at yahoo (which btw might be a very big mistake for just a few $ in the long run) Yes i know about that. But as a user these sites become destination sites to check on a particular location especially when you are travelling to a city first time. For example i am travelling to chennai and wanted to know the distance between kilpauk and mahabalipuram and i went to mapmyindia as i knew about the brand. But there will be many users who will use yahoo maps. These are potential customers that mapmyindia is loosing by providing maps to yahoo. Yahoo in turn is increasing its brand value in the eyes of users. In my eyes Mapmyindia and yahoo are competitors even though mapmyindia’s parent co powers the maps at yahoo (which btw might be a very big mistake for just a few $ in the long run)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/comment-page-1/#comment-2624 Anonymous Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:56:31 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2008/01/14/yahoo-maps-get-aggressive-adds-driving-directions-community-search/#comment-2624 Rajiv, It is interesting you mention Yahoo! and MapmyIndia in the same post, as driving the Indian navigation industry today. MapmyIndia and Yahoo! are great partners in fact - MapmyIndia supplies map data to Yahoo! for its India products (check out the copyright to CE Info Systems, MapmyIndia's parent company, on the bottom left section of Yahoo! India Maps portal). Rajiv,

It is interesting you mention Yahoo! and MapmyIndia in the same post, as driving the Indian navigation industry today. MapmyIndia and Yahoo! are great partners in fact – MapmyIndia supplies map data to Yahoo! for its India products (check out the copyright to CE Info Systems, MapmyIndia’s parent company, on the bottom left section of Yahoo! India Maps portal).

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