What time period is the film set in?

From what I gather, it will take place in the modern day, but with a sort of retro look. The train in the teaser trailer looks quite modern, but the station has been recreated to look as it did in the 50s.

I like this idea--it reinforces the "timelessness" of the Paddington stories.

(To say nothing of the fact that the real street named Windsor Gardens is nowhere near as nice as the Browns' neighborhood. Michael Bond's daughter has said that her father was definitely not basing the location on the real Windsor Gardens, but a sort of idealized version of the Notting Hill area. So setting it in a sort of "fantasy-modern" version of London makes sense.)

The phone number in the Brown's house has an 0207 London number, which came into effect in June 1999. Previously it was an 01 number which came into effect in 1959.
Most of the wallpaper and furniture are retro 50/60's. They also use corded telephones for all their calls, but didn't use any of the old dial telephones that were around in the 50/60's. The clothes everyone wears are period too. Although the young girl at the start seems to be wearing leggings. Nothing seemed to be very modern at all and more in line with the time Paddington came to London in 1958.

It's all over the place. The opening film of the explorer - which is meant to be the fairly recent past - is done in the style of the 1930s. Paddington station has old-looking signs but a modern train on the platform. The family don't use Oyster cards on the London Underground but the old-fashioned paper tickets instead, which have been steadily phased out since the early noughties. Everything's said in modern 21st century slang, but the family don't own a computer and use phone books to look up addresses. The one computer that is seen is a greenscreen text-based one from the 1980s.

There's also what's probably a deliberately anachronistic 'flashback' to the Brown parents when Judy was born, which although meant to take place just over a decade ago sees them in full 1960s/1970s clothing with Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild' playing. As mentioned in other posts it's meant to be a bit of a mish-mash of various decades, primarily based in 2014 but with lots of elements from the 1950s etc included.

Considering the data base system the Guild used, couldn't they just googled the explorers name?

Depends on the scene. One minute they're using laptops and cell phones, and next minute the father was a hippie while his wife was pregnant with their daughter (who is 13 or 14 in the movie).

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it is set i the present, but with some anachronisms. For instance, an ordinary family like the. Browns probably couldn't afford a house in Notting Hill nowadays, nor would they be very likely to have a full time housekeeper.

The film is set in contemporary london... there were shots that included the London Eye, the cheesegrater, the walkey talkey, etc... so it is set within the last 5 years.