Google showing Phonebook Results

when did they start?

[le_gber]

Tye a search for "J Doe" and add any US State (abbreviated or not Tx and Texas, Ca and Calif ornia etc...)

and check the top 3 results next to the big phone :)

when did this start?

[treeline]

There have been phone results available for a long time if you gave it enough info to guess that's what you were looking for. But this looks new, especially with the phone pic and several listings and numbers.

Probably part of the new Universal Search they're rolling out. This won't make the online phone directories too happy.

[kamikaze Optimizer]

I have seen those results with the phone pic for a very long time, more than a year or two.

It is a mandatory search in my household before dialing 411.

Google has an opt out page found here:

[google.com...]

I hope this help