Video: How To Hotpot

As you know, we recently announced the launch of  Hotpot , our new local recommendation engine for Google Places, powered by you and your fr...

Namesake

Hot pot, the dish, is about community. You and your friends huddle together and add ingredients to a pot of boiling broth, creating a delici...

How I’m Using Hotpot to Plan My Thanksgiving Weekend

The word “Thanksgiving” conjures up images of my family gathering around the table in Pennsylvania, passing the turkey and mashed potatoes t...

Map Your Favorite Places Along the Macy’s Parade Route

It's that time of the year: the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is upon us! Millions of people will be lining the streets of Manhatt...

Most-Rated Google Places

From time to time on the blog, we'll be serving up interesting bits of info based on all the rating and reviewing you guys are doing on ...

Lunch is on Google

No, not another story about gourmet food at Google . But "lunch is on Google" is what we told people we invited into our usability...

Hotpot's First Week

What an exciting first week for Hotpot. We launched Monday and announced Hotpot at the L3 meetup at the Ferry Building that night, and sinc...

Introducing the Hotpot Blog

It’s been a big year for places on the web. More than 20 percent of Google searches now have a local intent, and it’s clear that finding inf...