Google Assigns Dollar Value to Organic Search Results

[mandy]

Google's ads are paid for; its search results, supposedly, are untainted by commercial concerns. But French blog Zorgloob landed itself a screenshot that calls Google's purity into question. It shows what Google search results look like to a member of Google's AdWords sales team. The picture raises more questions than it answers. For example, why are there dollar signs among so-called "natural" search results? And why does Google note whether a website in its search results belongs to an advertiser?...

full article and screen shots: http://valleywag.com/tech/don.t-be-evil/...317140.php