J R FOX wrote:YES! That drives me crazy. I search for, say, gerunds, and get "Buy gerunds at Amazon.com." Idiotic. And the moral and philosophical implications.... But I shan't go there.The thing that is so immensely annoying about the sponsored links is the way they parse your search string and frequently put up something bogus or absurd -- which does not exist, or never would exist -- but still attempts to direct you to some commercial site or other. It is perhaps the ultimate non-sequitur.-- Patricia M. Godfrey PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx