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For weeks now I've been submitting feedback to Google on their search page because of their redesign. When I search for a city, 4 info boxes appear in three co

For weeks now I've been submitting feedback to Google on their search page because of their redesign. 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. -- 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 https://www.google.de/maps/preview without the query. -- 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.

pram 3y ago
Yeah that new map view is worthless, you also can’t do street level view on it. How anyone thought it was an improvement defies any rational explanation.
daltonlp 3y ago
> 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. Both these statements appear to be false. https://imgur.com/a/b4i4LwC https://imgur.com/a/b4i4LwC
- qwertox 3y ago
  When I use a VPN with an US IP-address, then it's like yours. That's why I know that it's expected to be found at the lower left corner. It's broken in Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, apparently the entire EU. https://imgur.com/a/Br1IYhi https://imgur.com/a/Br1IYhi When I change my "Results region" in the settings from "Germany" to "United States", "Switzerland" or any non-EU country, then the issue is fixed.
  - eszed 3y ago
    Does having an "open in maps" link somehow violate GDPR? No idea, but that's a plausible extrapolation from that (very irritating!) pattern.
mhuffman 3y ago
Google search, itself, is so bad now that I have had to resort to duckduckgo and yandex or adding "reddit" or "ycombinator" to searches to get anything remotely close to what I specifically ask for. Google just ignores my well though-out search terms and phrases it seems. Often returning the opposite of what I specifically searched for! I don't know if it just pinging on a keyword and ignoring everything else or wtf, but it is practically unusable. Google Maps is still pretty good for me though!

pram 3y ago

Yeah that new map view is worthless, you also can’t do street level view on it. How anyone thought it was an improvement defies any rational explanation.

daltonlp 3y ago

> 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. Both these statements appear to be false. https://imgur.com/a/b4i4LwC https://imgur.com/a/b4i4LwC

qwertox 3y ago
When I use a VPN with an US IP-address, then it's like yours. That's why I know that it's expected to be found at the lower left corner. It's broken in Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, apparently the entire EU. https://imgur.com/a/Br1IYhi https://imgur.com/a/Br1IYhi When I change my "Results region" in the settings from "Germany" to "United States", "Switzerland" or any non-EU country, then the issue is fixed.
- eszed 3y ago
  Does having an "open in maps" link somehow violate GDPR? No idea, but that's a plausible extrapolation from that (very irritating!) pattern.

mhuffman 3y ago

Google search, itself, is so bad now that I have had to resort to duckduckgo and yandex or adding "reddit" or "ycombinator" to searches to get anything remotely close to what I specifically ask for. Google just ignores my well though-out search terms and phrases it seems. Often returning the opposite of what I specifically searched for! I don't know if it just pinging on a keyword and ignoring everything else or wtf, but it is practically unusable. Google Maps is still pretty good for me though!