A website called gphangouts.com aggregates all the public hangouts on the social network. It includes “recent” and search functions too.
If you’re interested in creating a public hangout, you can also create one using the site. It’s unclear if Google or a third party runs the site. Reps from Google could not be reached for comment. Update: A Google rep says the site was not created by Google.
Since Google+ is less than a month old, users are still trying to figure out how to use Hangouts, which let you hold multi-person video chats. There have been several experiments with Hangouts. Ford, for instance, hosted a Hangout on July 7 and Dell CEO Michael Dell has also used Google+ more than a dozen times since he joined. Dell also mused on his Google+ Page that he’d like to use Hangouts for customer service. Ordinary users also use Hangouts as well, of course, as do some journalists.
Have you tried Hangouts? What do you think of it?