When I search for a city, 4 info boxes appear in three columns: Pretty images, embedded map, and a weather + directions combo.
When I click on the embedded map, it expands. But there is no link on the lower left allowing me to open that view in Google Maps.
And the button bar below the search box, which contains items like Images, News, Videos, Websites does no longer contain the Maps entry, which would take me to Google Maps.
So now, when I search for a place, I can no longer go to Google Maps with that search. I need to open Google Maps and re-search there.
Google is getting worse by the year, out of touch with their users. As if they're no longer dogfooding or care about their products.
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Edit: I noticed that the Maps-Button below the search box does appear when I search for a big city, like Hamburg or Berlin. But when I click it, I still get no way to reach Google Maps with that search. Only www.google.com/mymaps/viewer links or https://www.google.de/maps/preview without the query.
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Edit: Also, when the old design appears, the one where images, a map screenshot and a street-view screenshot appear in the right column, the map is no longer clickable. IIRC it would allow me to navigate to Google Maps with the search.