Probably many of you already know, but I have lately noticed that there is no map button in google searches. Also if the search shows a map, it's not clickable. At First, I thought this is a dark pattern because I use Firefox, but later I understood that it's a new rule in the EU.<p>More on this:
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/261655134/google-maps-not-being-linked-from-google-search-results-page?hl=en
While whatever EU regulation root cause of this is likely annoying and overbearing, I personally <i>hate</i> the embeddings of Google Maps into Google Search results.<p>This is true for both maps and photos of restaurants which expand in a tiny popup rather than the full screen view you get on maps.<p>Because as is always the case with these kinds of product embeddings, the UX is always subtly different, and a bunch of features are missing.<p>If ever I search for something that I realize I'd like to view in maps instead, I click the top bar "maps" to redo the search in maps and then have a consistent view.<p>So at least in this particular case, i don't think it's a big loss.
I created Chrome extension that tries to fix that. Works also in Opera.<p><a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-maps-quickclick-se/ippkeibgeeegemmdjhlhbdlcfjkgjann" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-maps-quickcl...</a>