A Fall from Heaven - Google games - continues

In my last post I tried to explain what the problem with Google is for my industry (web design, and some others) in these days.

Some background to the problem/ explanation of what Local Results for Generic Search Terms is:
http://searchengineland.com/google-showing-local-results-on-non-local-queries-17176

It seems there is a great panic on the internet over the issue:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=1f506c6b4fd31f70&hl=en#all
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?fid=19f4b0936485546a0004764ffd35db73&hl=en

It does seem like it should only be temporary thing as Google people told us they are “working” on it.

..BUT…

I have a small business and I feel the loss of enquiries that were coming from Google to my website significantly.
I can imagine what panic this must be causing to business owner who employs several people and who’s business is solely dependent on enquiries from Google.

The golden rule: “diversification is the king” proves to be true once again. Never rely on only one client, one advertising method…one business?