Google enhances Mobile.Google.com with Local search

Google recently enhanced Google Mobile with Local Search, adding similar functionality to local.google.com to their mobile application. What does this mean for vertical search? I can say for a fact (this moment, not the future) that community-based and individual efforts usually outweigh Google's attempts at seeking out local points of interest. The one thing Google has going for it (good or bad) is that it scrapes those community-based or individual sites and includes the information there in it's local results.

When is Google going to give some real love to all the sites that create the content it uses to provide such accurate results? In my case, Bobafind.com consists of hundreds of listings for Bubble Tea cafes, a rather obscure search. My site visitors have submitted many, and any time I come across a new location, I add it to my database. Along comes GoogleBot and BAM! all of my hard won locations are now part of Google Local! Do I get anything in return? Well, sort of. A non-rank-increasing link from Google. I guess it could be worse. Anyone got any ideas to get a few bucks out of this?