I can’t remember when, but Google made a concession in the EU to provided easier access to other local search providers in their own search results. This came after a lot of pressure in the EU. But that may be live now.

Well, it seems like some are spotting how that might look like in the search results.

A WebmasterWorld thread has a picture of what it looks like in the search results. It shows in the web results with a section called, “Google Places Results.” It also has an additional section on the right of that to “Search on: Yell, Yelp or 118.com.”

Here is a picture from the thread:

We’ve updated the picture, provided by @cheelo.

I do not know how Yell and 118.com got on the list, I guess they are major local search providers in the UK. This came up for this user for a search on Google.co.uk for [trade in location]. I cannot replicate it.

There has been a lot of debate around monopolistic practices by Google in the local space. This box shows a pop up that reads:

You and I know that Google hates to link searches to another search results page. But hey, government is making them.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.