{"id":8246,"date":"2010-11-24T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2010-11-24T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T20:52:22","slug":"google-hotspot-influence-rolling-across-all-of-google-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/google-hotspot-influence-rolling-across-all-of-google-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hotspot Influence Rolling Across All of Google Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue to learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/google-places-are-ratings-the-new-reviews\/\">changes<\/a> across all of Google local products as Hotspot is further integrated into the rating and review process.  Lat Long Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/how-ratings-and-reviews-work-on-google.html\">points<\/a> out that Places will now include a new section highlighting recommendations from friends:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/recommended-because.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8251\" title=\"recommended-because\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/recommended-because.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/recommended-because.jpg 538w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/recommended-because-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/recommended-because-440x600.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">I noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/google-places-are-ratings-the-new-reviews\/\">Rating are the new Reviews<\/a> that Google was now allowing rating in Places. Actually it is much more pervasive than that as they can now be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/hotpot\/bin\/static.py?page=guide.cs&amp;guide=29942&amp;topic=29943&amp;answer=187607\">made<\/a> in all of the following Google products:<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To rate a business on desktop, simply hover over rating stars anywhere you see them. Here are places you\u2019ll see the rating stars, on your computer.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li><a style=\"color: #0000cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hotpot\">Google Hotpot<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Maps search results<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #0000cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/places\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=180120&amp;rd=2\">Place pages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With your mobile device, you can rate places while on the go. You\u2019ll see the rating stars several places on your phone.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li>Google Maps mobile app for Android<\/li>\n<li>Places Android app<\/li>\n<li>Android home screen rating widget<\/li>\n<li>Mobile Place pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue to learn about changes across all of Google local products as Hotspot is further integrated into the rating and review process. Lat Long Blog points out that Places will now include a new section highlighting recommendations from friends: I noted in Rating are the new Reviews that Google was now allowing rating in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-hotpot","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8258,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}