Google has launched Hotpot, a surprisingly Yelp-like service for collecting ratings of places, which will then use those ratings to personalise your search results. Google Maps already provides reviews culled from around the web, and submitted by other Google users, but Hotpot goes a little deeper by tailoring its …

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Wednesday 17th November 2010 14:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Google will get you eventually

No it wont, No Facefriend, google analytics and leadservices untrusted in noscript, no google cookies and searches done with the scroogle search bar.

FOAD Google

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1. Thursday 18th November 2010 12:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Scroogle
  
  And how do you intend to use Scroogle if Google FOAD?
  
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  1. Thursday 18th November 2010 15:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    @Anonymous Coward Scroogle
    
    I'll use it as long as it is there and then use another one when/if it dies.
    
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Wednesday 17th November 2010 14:59 GMT Owen Carter

SEO

Problem is; anything that can affect search rankings draws the SEO w****ers like flies.. I guess the 'social networking' aspect of this is supposed to sort that all out. But SEO types are quite adept at producing vast artificial crowds (astroterracing?) so I can see them bolloxing this too.

Our search for better search continues.

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Wednesday 17th November 2010 15:15 GMT Anonymous Coward

But what if...

...I'm somewhere none of my friends have ever been?

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Wednesday 17th November 2010 15:19 GMT Martin Kirk

Fallacy

Once again, a "social networking" idea based on the false premise that I will like what my friends like. Only works for lemmings.

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Wednesday 17th November 2010 15:50 GMT <shakes head>

so now google will know where you are all the time

joys

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1. Wednesday 17th November 2010 17:02 GMT JCL
  
  hmm...
  
  They already know what you're thinking about.
  
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2. Thursday 18th November 2010 00:32 GMT Ef'd
  
  Well
  
  Google is Santa Claus
  
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