Personally, I don't find these Ads at all intrusive, but hey, pays (pun!) to be informed.
>>>
"All you need to do is to include the "output=googleabout" parameter into your Google search URL."
Maybe I'm missing the point but why not just use adblock/hostfile/iespyad/opera block/ or whatever?
This will take care of many Google adverts.
Adblock does it fine for me.