Exactly. And, remarkably, so far this is not registering for anybody else in this thread. It is about not placing ads within search results, and making clear th

Exactly. And, remarkably, so far this is not registering for anybody else in this thread. It is about not placing ads within search results, and making clear that ads, wherever they are, are different from search. On a very vague, thematic level, this kind of grandstanding in Google's statement does seem to be in some sort of conflict with Google's approach to ad placement in 2022, because ads do very much seem similar to search results, but it has nothing to do with "ads above search results" or ads in the sidebar.