Robert_Charlton - 12:25 am on Jan 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

Just a note that these listings have been added not just to local business results, but also to what I'd call travel results, mostly outside the US. Google still describes them, though, as "business results." They are local, and they are map related.

I'm also noting on some of the travel results that when you add modifiers to certain searches, Google will display several organic results, usually three, above the map and list of ten.

On one search I tried, though, searching without the modifier brought three results for authoritative guides to the subject up above the map... and adding the modifier apparently disambiguated the search and a map came up to the top.

As I just noted in the Position #6 discussion, Google seems to have rolled out a bunch of new Universal Search results with this current update... and this expanded map and variable positioning is apparently one of them.

Adding a modifier or extra modifier in some US local business searches will also cause three organic results to appear above the map.

I'm noticed that the #4 positioning for the Universal Search feature is similar to what's happening on some searches with news results.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 12:27 am (utc) on Jan. 27, 2008]