SVP of engineering Vic Gundotra lays out the stats.
Google has announced that its Google Maps for mobile service is now being used by more than 100 million people a month.
The stat was revealed in a blog post by Google's VP of engineering Vic Gundotra. The figure presumably covers both mobile web and app users of the service.
In his post, Gundotra highlights the features that have been added to Google Maps since its mobile debut five years ago, including My Location, Latitude, Navigation, and Place Pages.
The timing of the blog post, the day after Facebook unveiled its new Facebook Places service, is surely no co-incidence. Facebook recently announced that it has 150 million active mobile users.
Gundotra says that since releasing the latest Android version of Google Maps, which supports Google's Places directory of local businesses, users are "now searching for places almost three times as often, doubling how many Place Pages are seen a day".
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He also reminds businesses to claim their Place Page to ensure their information is accurate.
