[tpaksoy]

>I'm pretty sure that Google's core functionality is ads

You have got to be kidding me... So we're completely going to ignore that everyone is still using Google as a search engine, and not ads? You're making things up just to get your point across.

[mangeletti]

More people see Google ads than any other form of interaction with Google, by a long shot.

If you want to talk about Google search, it's obvious, as a user, that when you click a link in the results you're going to be going to the URL that the link points to (even if Google changes the URL when you click it for tracking purposes, there shouldn't be much room for confusion).