image ads coming to google

I have a rule with web advertising: If it flashes, moves, pops-up, pops-under, makes noise or even clashes with a site's color scheme, it finds itself AdBlocked. That means that pretty much the only ads that get through to my browser are Google's text-based, context-sensitive ads. They're also the only ads I've ever clicked - sometimes, if I'm looking for product info, the ads are more informative than the search results.

Sadly, it looks like this may change. This looks like a bad move to me. The reason I use Google is because it's simple, it's slick, and it's fast. If it starts beeping and flashing and taking 2 minutes to load, I'm blocking the ads or finding another search engine. Maybe MSN Search. I gotta hand it to Microsoft on this one: they don't get many things right, but these search results prove their engine is working flawlessly.

Update: Google responds to the controversy (link).