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Google Merging Hotpot with Places

Apr 8, 2011, 1:58 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Google today announced that the success of its recommendation service, Hotpot, has prompted it to make Hotpot a permanent part of the Google Places local search tool. From now on, it will no longer be referred to as Hotpot, bit will instead become a feature of Google Places. Google says that it plans to continue refining the Hotpot recommendation service so that it is easier for users to find local businesses, read about them, and write reviews/make recommendations. Google also announced that it has kicked off marketing campaigns for Places/Hotpot in five U.S. cities, including: Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; Las Vegas, Nev.; Madison, Wis.; and Charlotte, N.C. Users will still be able to access the recommendations tools from Google Maps and Google.com.

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Kineticboy2001

Apr 8, 2011, 4:12 PM

Hotpot? Awesome!

I can't wait to use this for all of my... what? Oh THAT's what it's for? Oh, okay, I guess that's cool too.

cstone

Lol. the editor definitely dropped the ball on this article. Along with the misspelling of HOTSPOT in the title, in this quote "From now on, it will no longer be referred to as Hotpot, bit will instead become a feature of Google Places." the word but ...
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pickles

Apr 9, 2011, 11:37 PM

SICK!!!!

now it's even easier to give google all of your info so they can sell it for marketing purposes! i love google

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