Is there no end of Google's index?

One of the things I want to explore on this blog is the rise of Google's absolute insistence in making information public and accessible. Important to this is making information discoverable.

On this topic, this recent post from Dave Bouwmann illustrates my point a little. It is not enough that Google is making an index of books available but they are now indexing within those books.

So what has this to do with GI? Well I think that this perhaps illustrates the distinction between making a data collection available versus making data itself available. If we will strive to start sharing data, we need a mechanism which will allow the actual data to be indexed and made available rather than worrying about the context which delivers this data as information.

Enough theory, lets talk practical.
Here is a Google map of hospitals.
This presents us with a collection of data as information. Maps, Aerial photos and point data (hospitals).
But why when we type in Edinburgh Hospital should we get this collection of data presented in this way. Why not provide us with the referenced/indexed location of the data itself. Let us develop off that!