I work for Google, and while I don't know anything about this particular situation, one invariant that I've been consistently impressed with is that the ads sid

I work for Google, and while I don't know anything about this particular situation, one invariant that I've been consistently impressed with is that the ads side of the company doesn't influence the search side of the company _at all_. I've seen well meaning ads support folks emailing people in search quality about an innocent problem with one of their customer's sites, and getting sternly told that they should never again send an email to those mailing lists.