Google Local Search Joins Crowd of Front Page

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A few more of these and the pretense will have to be over. The addition of Local to the homepage has Google looking more like a miminalist portal than a search box page.
And of course it is in Beta - guess Laryy and Sergi bought the trademark for the term and hope to make billions on its use - but that is another story.....

How many more links does Google get to add to the front page before it officially becomes a portal?

I am waiting for the link to the Google - I mean Firefox (Google-friendly) browser version.