that quote is insane. i guess its probably a little out of context and is meant only to be referring to 'product links'. but i'm not sure how any sane legal rul

that quote is insane. i guess its probably a little out of context and is meant only to be referring to 'product links'. but i'm not sure how any sane legal rule is going to differentiate between different types of ad links on the search page. ultimately google has to make money. if they purely only showed search results and no placed links then their only way of making money would be from the flow of data. i'm not sure if you could run a search engine off of that. it is also basically saying you can only run a search engine if you either are running an ad platform for third party sites that exploits the data you collect from your search engine or you are selling data to a third party ad platform.