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Ehhh... It's a reasonable assumption. They carry out frequent A/B testing (which you will end up with the bad thing time to time). Their algorithms can also negatively hit sites that "should" be in the search results too. Also they make money on adverts.

What you're describing isn't "on purpose" though. The issue is if Google is "maiming" their product so it is terrible. That's clearly not their intent nor is that the intent for basically any piece of software ever with the exception of Modern Warfare 2.

My gripes mainly centers on terrain view, which I use a lot. You want to look up a place? Want to click on a name? We'll zoom in (A HUGE gripe for me) for you and turn back to map view. If you want to switch back to terrain view we'll wipe whatever pins you got.

You used to be able to play around with it so much easier and I swear Google Maps as a whole was snappier. My user satisfaction has been dropping for a while now. It went from "Oh, okay." to "What the f...