Search results
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
Use the store finder to view all kinds of useful information including opening hours, directions, contact details and the kind of products, services and facilities.
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- Overview
- Search for a place on Google Maps
- Filter your search results on Google Maps
- Find search suggestions for places
- Tips for searches on Google Maps
- Get more info about a place
- How local results show up on Google Maps
- Within Google Maps
- Other Google products
- Related resources
You can search for places and locations with Google Maps.When you sign in to Google Maps, you can get more detailed search results. You can find places you've searched for before and search for your contacts by name.
1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
2. At the top, tap the search box and enter an address, name of a place or choose a category, like petrol stations or groceries.
• To use voice search, tap Speak .
Tip: After you find a place on the map, you can check directions to the place in a list, details about a place, or get directions with voice-guided navigation.
Not all filtering options are available for all languages and countries/regions.
1. On your Android phone or tablet, search for a type of business, restaurant or place.
2. Above your search results, tap More Filters.
3. Select what you want to filter. Then, tap Apply.
1. On your Android device, open Google Maps app .
2. In the search box, enter a search, like restaurants.
• Under the search box, personalised search results might appear.
3. Choose a place to check it on the map and get more information.
Delete search suggestions
On computer:
Examples include:
• Specific businesses: Starbucks.
• Types of places: coffee near hyde park.
• Narrow your results by using the city and county: groceries in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
• Narrow your results by using a postcode: petrol in BN2.
• Find a junction: high street and clarendon.
To get more information about a place, do one of the following:
• Select a mini pin on the map.
• Drop a pin on the map.
• Search for a specific place.
You can get information about the place like the address, hours of operation, phone number, website and ratings or reviews.
Tip: To find a place’s website, save a place, find directions, and share a place, you can use 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and up. To turn on 3D Touch, go to the Settings app General Accessibility 3D Touch. Then, open Google Maps and hard press on a place.
General places on the map
Local results appear for people who search for businesses and places near their location. They're shown in various places across Maps and Search.
For example, if you search for 'Italian restaurant' from your mobile device, you can get local results. Google shows you nearby restaurants that you’d want to visit.
Several factors, primarily relevance, distance and prominence, influences the local results. These factors are combined to help find the best match for your search.
For example, if what you’re looking for is probably in a business that’s further away from you, Google algorithms might decide to rank it higher in local results.
Tip: Payment from other companies doesn’t influence results in Google Maps. Paid content in Google Maps is labeled.
Personalised places you find may come from:
• Your interactions with places on the map, including Google maps that you use on other sites.
• Your recent searches, including searches for directions.
• Places you've saved or starred on your computer, phone or tablet.
• Places rated or reviewed by you or people in your circles.
• Your home and work addresses, if you set them on Google Maps or your feed.
Personalised places you find may come from:
• Custom maps, if you have them in My Maps.
• People and places you've added to your Google Contacts like Pizzeria Delfina.
If you don't want to find search suggestions in Google Maps, update your preferences in the other Google products.
• Get directions and show routes
• Download areas and navigate offline
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