This has happened to me at least three times in as many days, and it’s annoying.
I do a simple search at google.com, this time it was Penn Jillette.
Results come up, at the top of everything is exactly what I was looking for, the simple non-ad-related number one result, his own site: www.pennandteller.com.
So I immediately go to click it, my finger is already in motion, and a tenth of a second before I click, it changes.
A peach colored box appears, with two ads in it, in this case #1 was Showtime, and #2 was Vegas tickets for their show.
That’s all fine, the ads make sense, but what pisses me off, is that I see the #1 result, I go to click it, and *then *this ad shows up, pushing the real result down, and I accidentally click a Showtime ad.
It just doesn’t seem fitting with their supposed “don’t be evil” philosophy. It feels like they just have it timed precisely as to invite misclicks.