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Go back to a different background for ads, for instance.


Or simply put ads only in the right-hand column that is now entirely populated by ads. "Do you want the results our software comes up with? Then read left. Or do you want the results people pay us to show you? Then read right." This would be an honest business model, and if advertisers had to provide more value to searchers than Google's algorithm with their keyword bids, they might actually do something smart and useful.




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