Back in November,
we introduced Hotpot, a new local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends. Using Hotpot is simple: you rate places on
google.com/hotpot—restaurants, hotels, cafes—and add friends on Hotpot whose opinions you trust. Then the next time you perform a search, Google will serve up personalized results, listing places based on your tastes, as well as recommendations from your friends.
Seeing place recommendations based on your tastes and those of your friends across more Google searches will make results more relevant to you and maybe lead you to discover a new gem. If you don’t have Hotpot friends yet, you can invite them to share all the places they love with you by using the “Friends” tab on
google.com/hotpot.
But Hotpot will only be half the fun if you can’t share it with all your international friends. So starting today, we’re making Hotpot available in
38 new languages—including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian and Spanish—allowing people to share their favorite places in their native language.
Start rating and sharing recommendations with Hotpot everywhere, anytime: at
google.com/hotpot, on
Google Maps, using
Google Maps for Android with an easy
widget, and on our new
iPhone app.
Happy rating!
Posted by Lior Ron, Product Manager
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