Search locations on Google Maps

Important: We’re currently updating settings for Google Search services, which include Search, Maps, Shopping, Flights, Hotels, Translate, and News. These are rolling out gradually over the next few months. If the settings in this article do not match what you see, history and personalized recommendations for Search services are still controlled by Web & App Activity.

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.

Tips:

You can find a lost device with the feature, 'Find your phone'.
For safety reasons, you can't search people by their phone numbers. However, you can find people who have shared their location with you through Location Sharing. Learn how to share your real-time location with others in Google Maps.

Search for a place on Google Maps

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .
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.

Filter your search results on Google Maps

Not all filtering options are available for all languages and countries/regions.

On your Android phone or tablet, search for a type of business, restaurant or place.
Above your search results, tap More Filters.
Select what you want to filter. Then, tap Apply.

Search for a category of places on Google Maps

On your Android device, open Google Maps app .
In the search box, enter a search, like restaurants.
- Searches may include places relevant to you.
Choose a place to check it on the map and get more information.

Tips for searches on Google Maps

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.
Address, city, county, country or airport: 114 Park Road Brighton, Sussex, LHR, London Heathrow Airport, or Mount Everest, Nepal.
Latitude and longitude coordinates: 41.40338, 2.17403.
Friends and other contacts (you must be signed in): Alex Cooper.
Other names of people in your G Suite Contacts.

Get your postcode or more info about a place

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 such as the address, postcode, 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.

How local results show up on Google Maps

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.

Learn more about local search results in Google.

Tip: Payment from other companies doesn’t influence results in Google Maps. Paid content in Google Maps is labeled.

Places relevant to you

Searches may include places relevant to you.

Here are some examples of where this information may come from:

Within Google Maps

Other locations that you have engaged with directly might be shown in the results:

Your interactions with places on the map.
Your recent searches, including searches for directions.
Places that you've saved or starred on your computer, phone or tablet.
Places rated or reviewed by you.
Your home and work addresses, if you set them in your account.

If you don't want to find your recent searches in search suggestions, stop saving your history.

Other Google products

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.

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