Google is going to rule the world!
I have a love hate realtionship with google.
I think, not just for me, it is a bad position to be in where 70% or more of a sites traffic come from Google. I wish bing, yahoo, and google all had equal market share and each their own index (bings index now runs Yahooo)
I recently got a plaque in the mail to display as a "Google Favorite Place"...looks like because mine was one of the 100,000 most visited places on google for the first half of the year...or whatever.
I received this email as well. It might be that you need to create a "Google Local" account AND/OR use Google Analytics. I do both, so I'm not sure what got me on the list.
I do know that our B&B is shown on Google Maps and Google Earth with a little bed icon and our info from Google Local pops up when you mouseover.