bouncybunny - 9:47 am on Nov 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Nearly every Google search result with the name of a town now seems to have about 1-3 'local' businesses showing up at the top of the SERPs next to a map, with their address and phone number.

I'm guessing it has sopmething to do with Google Maps, but I can't work out how it works.

Would anyone be kind enough to let me know how these lucky businesses manage to get into this set of results?

Thanks.