Sorting Google Maps places by number of reviews

Question

When using Google Maps to decide on places to visit, I find that the total number of reviews is as helpful in my deciding which places to visit as the place's actual average rating.

However, while Google Maps has some (limited, and awkwardly-implemented) support to restrict searches based on rating, namely filtering places below a certain average rating, it does not have any option to sort places based on how many reviews they have, i.e. obtain a list of the most "popular" places in a given town.

Could anyone possibly suggest a workaround to achieve such search results, or perhaps an external implementation that can, such as an API?

Tesstessa

This is a very long-standing, popular feature request that Google is aware of, but not implemented yet. You can follow the issue on their Public Issue Tracker to get updates and show more interest – Bradfordbradlee

Answer 1

I found this site can sort by number of reviews: https://www.top-rated.online/

Superpatriot

Answer 2

I created a Chrome Extension that is doing it live on top of Google Maps - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-maps-sorter/okomdlgdhdhoclopfhbfidhnlifmbpbp

This extension adds the sorting button on the bottom right part. To use it:

• Search for what you want.
• Scroll down through the search results to fetch as many results as you want. This is because the sorting happens only on the client side.
• Click on the sorting button and go back to the top.

Aeneous