Managing Search Results
Once you begin searching for places and listings and have learned how to save them, you can learn about:
Search Result Basics
This section covers the basic search results features not covered in Finding Places and Directions.
- Matching search results are displayed in the 3D viewer with an icon to mark the search. The alphabetical icons next to each result correspond to its matching item in the search list view for easy cross reference. By default, only the most recent search is turned on in the 3D viewer, but you can turn on the icon for any search result by selecting its checkbox in the search list view. You can turn on the display for entire search results by selecting that search folder's checkbox.
- You can also delete the entire contents of a search result by right-clicking (CTRL-clicking on the Mac) the folder and selecting Delete Contents from the pop-up menu.
- You can perform the same operations on search results and their folders that you would for any item in your Places panel, including organising, touring, deleting and editing.
- You can search for content created by Google Earth and Maps users. This KML-based content offers some of the most exciting material that you can see in Google Earth. To search for user content, navigate to an appropriate location and search. User content appears at the bottom of your search results in a folder entitled Web Results and in the 3D viewer as blue markers
Clearing Search Results
To clear search results, click the Clear button 
at the bottom of the search results listing. This removes all search results from both the listing and the 3D view except for those that have been saved to the My Places folder.
Printing Search Results
You can print all results from your search by clicking the Printable view link in the search results window. When you do this, the Google Maps web window appears at the bottom of the screen and you can click the Print button on that web page to print your search results.
Viewing Many Results
Oftentimes a search over a category in a metropolitan area returns many results all crowded in a small region. Sometimes, a label appears next to one icon, but not another, or a group of icons has no label or one icon overlaps another one. Follow the guidelines for tuning the display on Points of Interest in order to resolve common issues with numerous search results.
