For rankby search I hit the following URL, today morning around 11:00AM Indian time:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=41.703625,-71.493149&rankby=distance&type=cafe&key=&name=BrewedAwakenings
I got 5 Brewed Awakenings Cafes
Now whenever I hit the exact same URL I get only 4 Brewed Awakenings Cafes
In another problem with rankby search for following URL:
I get a Starbucks cafe at the address: 303 Congress Street, Boston
Now when I hit the same URL with an additional parameter &name=Starbucks this cafe goes missing from the response Following URL https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=42.351463,-71.050446&rankby=distance&type=cafe&key=&name=Starbucks
(Starbucks cafe, at 303 Congress Street, Boston, is missing)
In radar search also, using following URL, we get varied results for this Boston cafe: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/radarsearch/json?location=42.351463,-71.050446&radius=32186.90&type=cafe&sensor=true&key=&name=%22Starbucks%22
Sometimes following place id cafe comes and sometimes it doesn't Place Id: ChIJcZkjBYBw44kR1iTeLn1efm0
It varies even when we pass the name with or without double quotes.
Also, the google doc for places API says we can pass "name" parameter with pipe separated values But that gives varied results depending on the sequence of the names and also based on whether we give spaces in long names or not
