Six weeks ago Google added text ads at the bottom of Google Maps, now it’s Google Finance turn. Today during my lunch break some text ads appeared at the right top of Google Finance. It’s really intrusive: one quarter of the page width, exactly where the graph used to be. Your eyes can’t missed it because this is where you taught them to look in the first place! :( Don’t be evil…
I haven’t tried to figure out how they generate the content of these ads, is it based on your stock portfolio? on your searches? is it uncorrelated with your profile? I doubt it.