I am looking to use Google Places autocomplete to help user search for places near him/her. When using autocomplete in the example below, I get establishment that are very far from the location.
I assume Google considers the popularity of the establishment in the result set. My question: is there a way to get back the list sorted by proximity to the location, i.e. "turn off" the popularity index? (and to get similar functionality to the nearbysearch with autocomplete) ?
Why not just using nearbysearch? because nearbysearch does not perform well when only part of the name is entered as keyword ( I assume nearbysearch assume the 'keyword' parameter is the complete word).
Thanks for your help!