Google Hotpot is going

to be a permanent part of Google's Local Places

[Hoople]

"...we’ve decided to graduate Hotpot to be a permanent part of our core local product offering, Google Places."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/hotpot-is-going-places.html [googleblog.blogspot.com]

How many of you actually knew of or used Hotpot?

[anallawalla]

A few people knew about Hotpot and have used it, as have I. As a rating interface it isn't great. For example, although I could rate a place as 3/5, there is only a smile or frown icon, but not a neutral one.

[engine]

FYI [webmasterworld.com...]