Google Maps has over 200 million business listings worldwide — making it the largest, most up-to-date business directory on the planet. Unlike traditional directories (Yellow Pages, Yelp, JustDial), Google Maps listings are maintained by the businesses themselves and verified by Google, which means the data is far more accurate and current.
But most people only use Google Maps to get directions. As a business tool — for finding leads, researching markets, and building prospect lists — it's almost completely untapped.
Every Google Maps listing includes: business name, address, phone number, website, rating, category, opening hours, and photos. All of it is free to view and search — for any industry, in any city, in any country.
| Data Point | Available? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business name | Always | As listed by the owner |
| Phone number | Most listings | Direct line; often mobile for SMBs |
| Website | If linked | Official website URL |
| Full address | Always | Street, city, postal code |
| Star rating | If reviewed | Average of all Google reviews |
| Business category | Always | E.g. "Italian Restaurant", "Law Firm" |
| Opening hours | Most listings | Including current open/closed status |
| Photos | Most listings | Owner-uploaded + user photos |
| Reviews | If reviewed | Count + text of each review |
Open Google Maps in your browser. You don't need to be logged in to search.
Type a search combining a business category and a location. Examples:
• "dentists in Manchester"
• "software companies in Berlin"
• "restaurants near downtown Toronto"
• "law firms in Dubai"
• "gyms in Singapore"
Google Maps returns all matching businesses in that area, shown both as a list on the left and as pins on the map.
Google Maps has built-in filters for many searches: rating threshold, open now, price range. Use these to pre-qualify your list — for example, "restaurants in Sydney" filtered to 4.0+ stars returns higher-quality prospects than unfiltered results.
Click any business in the list to open its detail panel. You'll see the full address, phone number, website, hours, photos, and reviews. This is where the complete contact information lives — the list view only shows a summary.
Google Maps has no built-in way to export search results. To get a list of 50 businesses, you'd have to click each one individually, manually copy the phone number, website, and address, paste it into a spreadsheet, and repeat — 50 times. For 100 businesses, that's 2–4 hours of manual work.
The GrabNear Chrome extension adds an export layer on top of Google Maps. When you run a search, it automatically clicks through every result and extracts the phone number, website, address, rating, and photo in real time. The result is a clean lead list ready to export in one click.
1. Install the GrabNear extension from the Chrome Web Store (free)
2. Search for any business category and location on Google Maps
3. Click the GrabNear icon — it opens a panel and starts extracting automatically
4. When done, click Export CSV — download all contacts to Excel instantly
5. Use Load More to extract additional pages of results
Paid B2B data tools (ZoomInfo, Apollo, Clearbit) scrape and aggregate data from multiple sources. Accuracy varies — phone numbers can be months or years old, emails bounce, companies have moved or closed.
Google Maps data is different: businesses update their own listings because it directly affects how they appear in local search results. An inaccurate phone number or address costs them customers. The incentive to keep data current is built in. This is why Google Maps phone numbers have a higher connect rate than most paid databases for SMB contacts.
Install GrabNear and turn any Google Maps search into a downloadable contact list. Phone numbers, websites, addresses and ratings — exported to CSV in one click.
Add to Chrome — Free