Understanding Google Places & Local Search – Developing Knowledge about Local Search

December 20, 2010

Interview with Lior Ron, Hotpot Product Manager

Category: Google Hotpot,Google Places (Maps & Local) – Mike Blumenthal – 5:00 am

Last week in This Week in Startups, Jason Calcanis had a great interview with Lior Ron (who like hotpot has his name backwards :) ),the product manager for Google Hotpot. The interview is interesting, gives insight to the technology and Google’s thinking about its role going forward and its relationship to personalized search.

The interview is longish but well worth watching and chock full of gems. It is refreshing to hear candid remarks from the Maps team.

The actual interview with Lior starts just around minute 4:58 and trust me you will want to start there…

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2 Comments »

  1. I watched the video and found it interesting and insightful, however i also got a pounding headache listening to Jason Calcanis bounce all over the place.

    Comment by Andy Kuiper (232 comments) — December 20, 2010 @ 5:15 pm

  2. Woah! Amazing to see the momentum that Google creates with their staff policy.
    I like the video as a whole a lot.

    Comment by tand blekning (1 comments) — December 20, 2010 @ 7:42 pm

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