The $39 billion worth of Yellow Pages and Local Search and Directories advertising forecast for 2011 is a big part of Google’s growth forecast, and it is a very Google-centric part.

The Kelsey “Drilling Down on Local” Conference this week in Santa Clara was just a local stone‘s throw from Google CEO Eric Schmidt‘s Mountain View office in the Googleplex, but Google was not a principal local driller.

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