[lutz]

But Google does that already, without needing to type !maps...

[nonamegiven]

You get better (short, sane and email-friendly) URLs if you access google searches via DDG bang. !gm = google maps, !g = google search, !gi = google images, etc.

[badgar]

So we have DDG as a better solution when you're e-mailing links to google searches. That doesn't add up to hours a week.