Google, I love you but wtf?

There is something Google did a while back that ruffled my feathers a bit. When they updated their style to move the bar to the top. They removed a feature I used quite often.

Say I want to search for “Tyler Mulligan”

but last second I decide I’d rather see my sexy mug than a bunch of text. When you change your search type (i.e. web to images), your search string disappears!

Am I alone in missing this feature? Certain other search engines don’t have this problem.