Google has released Google Places with Hotpot on the iPhone.
For those of you who aren’t familiar, Google Places is a free app that allows you to find local businesses and rate them, and with their new ‘hotpot’ feature, Google can suggest new places you’ll like, based on your previously ratings.
The app uses your location to suggest nearby places for you to rate. You can give a standard star rating out of 5, and depending on the location, optional ratings including: Food, Atmosphere, Value and Service.
You can view ratings from most review sites such as Yelp or Qype, as well as Google’s own ratings and it comes with 9 separate categories as standard (Restaurants, Coffee Shops, Bars, ATMs, Gas Stations, Hotels, Attractions, Pizza Parlors and Post Offices) but you can add personal searches as well to cater to your tastes.
This isn’t a ‘check-in’ application like Gowalla or Foursquare, but this is more similar to apps like Yelp or AroundMe.
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