smallcompany - 4:25 pm on Nov 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

The time has changed since days when Google was a new search engine.

Ads were very annoying when they showed up first time. People were not shopping online as much as they do today.
So (I guess), many that said "what!" at that time, now say nothing when they see ads.

But yes, some will go elsewhere as they will not like it, simple as that.
It's personal feeling about if something looks spammy or not. I haven't had a chance to see pictures besides ads, but tried to imagine, and it looked to me like database driven site solution for $10/month.

The more important point is about business sustainability for folks that don't use paid search or other paid solutions.

Bit of everything is way to go - but yeah - no time, so we pick what we think is the best part.