I found a forum post from Josh (SitePoint Forum Leader). It was a very GOOD post in my opinion. He took great measures to digg deeper on Googles postion regarding placing its OWN images next to ads. See original Forum post here:
Josh’s  email to Google said and I quote -
Regarding your blog post “clarifying” the [...]

I was doing some SEV (search engine vanity) today and I noticed that Joe Lewis from Web Pro News decided to do an interesting post about a topic that has been widely discussed in 2006 which is Google’s Supplemental Results. I recently did a post over at lunarpages about “Google Poo” and during my [...]