QGIS 3 has a lot of new features and new tools for geoprocessing and spatial analysis, however there are some tools from QGIS 2 that hasn´t migrated yet. An example of this break was the OpenLayers plugin, one of the most popular and first plugins in QGIS 2 that is not available in the new version of QGIS.
OpenLayers plugin provide maps from Google, OSM and Bing in QGIS 2. Basemaps in QGIS 3 can be inserted as a XYZ Tiles . However, QuickMapServices plugin allows the search and implementation from a set of basemaps on different formats (TMS, WMS, WFS and GeoJSON) in QGIS 3.
Some of the basemaps available in QuickMapServices are:
Hybrid Google Satellite Image:
Google Satellite Hybrid
Hybrid Google Hillshade Image:
Google Terrain
Sentinel 2 Cloudless Image:
EOX::Maps – Sentinel-2 cloudless
OpenStreetMap Road Map:
MapSurfer OSM Roads
There is a website where you can have more information about the available basemaps, their extension and perform thematic searches:
Tutorial
The following tutorial show the whole procedure to install QuickMapServices in QGIS3 and explore different basemaps. Credit to Saulmontoya.