I'm not convinced that's a good thing in all cases -- a centralized list of search results can be useful. For example if I search google maps for "seattle register car" I get a couple results for actual auto registration places, along with airport parking, car dealerships, etc... being able to quickly filter out the junk results without mousing all over a map seems nice.

Honestly now that I think about it I have no idea what my "usual" google maps usage is so it'll be interesting to see how much that matters!