New Google Hotpot

Google Hotpot

Google aloof appear a fresh artefact for award restaurants alleged "Hotpot." Hotpot is both bounded and social, two hot areas Google is not leading.

We took a quick run through Hotpot. It seems advantageous and able-bodied designed. We already adopt it to Yelp, but about we're not big admirers of Yelp. (Something about it feels not appropriate to us.)

If you like Yelp, again we don't see any acumen to about-face to Hotpot. Hotpot apparently won't advance into a antic abode for a big community.

The botheration with Hotpot -- which is the botheration with all things amusing for Google -- is that for it to absolutely assignment well, we'll charge our accompany to alpha application it. We aloof don't see that happening. For whatever reason, our accompany aloof aren't absorbed in ambience up Google profiles.

But! Even after those losers, Hotpot can still be a nice utility. As we analysis added restaurants, it will apprentice our tastes and acclaim places to eat. It additionally aggregates reviews and advice on anniversary restaurant, authoritative it cool useful.

Hotspot will be added to Android, but no chat on if it becomes an iPhone app.

“It’s acutely accessible that breadth is one of the fastest-growing segments of the tech industry; Google has been bombastic bound in this breadth with improvements to Places, Images, Latitude and added casework with breadth features. Its newest attack into the apple of location-based casework is Hotpot.

“Hotpot takes all of Google Places‘ ratings and reviews appearance and adds a added claimed touch. Currently, Abode Pages mostly accumulated analysis abstracts from sources such as Yelp. With Hotpot, users will be encouraged to amount and analysis businesses anon from their Google-linked profile. Users’ ratings and reviews are tracked with a adverse at the top of anniversary profile, and brand and dislikes are remembered and acclimated in Google’s advocacy engine.

“Unlike the just-the-facts, business-friendly interface of Places, Hotpot has a audibly convenient UI that mirrors accepted trends in web app design. In added words, it’s aimed anon at boilerplate consumers, not web junkies who alive to search. While Hotpot works able-bodied with Places data, its presentation is absolutely fresh, both visually and functionally. It presents high-impact abstracts (star ratings and images) for anniversary abode in a filigree architecture after introducing too abounding capacity — such as buzz cardinal or URL — that ability not be bare until the user decides to dig bottomward addition akin or two.

Not alone has Google baffled Facebook to the bite with its aboriginal absolution of a Places advocacy engine, it’s additionally giving businesses alike added acumen to set up Places pages and alpha cerebration about their location-based announcement on Google. After all, added consumers will alpha their bounded business searches on Google than aloof about anywhere else.

We like arena about with Hotpot so far. Its interface is simple; autograph reviews and appraisement places is quick. Give it a spin, and let us apperceive what you anticipate in the comments.