The Places API lets you search for place information
using a variety of categories, including establishments, prominent points of
interest, and geographic locations. You can search for places either by
proximity or a text string. A Place Search returns a list of places along with
summary information about each place; additional information is available using
a Place Details query.
Compare search types
There are three search endpoints available with different characteristics. The following table
highlights some of these differences.
There is no way to constrain Nearby Search or Text Search to only return specific fields. To
keep from requesting (and paying for) data that you don't need, use a Find Place request instead.
Ambiguous text
Find Place and Text Search are optimized for matching ambiguous text across a number of fields
while Nearby Search is constrained to strict matches on a subset of fields.
Additional filters
Nearby Search and Text Search allow additional parameters to filter results,
(e.g. minprice, maxprice, opennow, and type).
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