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Will Real-Time Google Traffic Maps Really Help? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Monday, August 31, 2009

Google's entry threatens to fragment the real-time traffic market. How can other startups survive?

Google is bringing its considerable heft to the hot traffic applications space, collecting speed and location information from mobile users and reporting its analysis of that data in real time through its Google Maps app. But will its participation make traffic apps better or worse? In any crowdsourcing app like this one, critical mass is key, and delivering critical mass is a proven Google trait. But the big G is far from the only one chasing [...]

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