Google Local in Universal Search

I recently noticed that when Google added Google Local results to the top of the SERPs that it would count those as being three of the ten results, and would only show seven organic results. Now that Universal Search is in effect, Google is moving the Local results into the actual SERPs as shown below.

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This is an interesting turn of events.

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