Is Gmail Your Biggest Competitor?

I logged into Gmail today and saw the following message:

Ironically a second later I got the following email from a client:

So you probably already know this, but thought I would share.  I am working on an email to past customers, and in the process of testing it, I send a copy to my work email, and aol email and a gmail email.  Apparently when you send to an email hosted by the great google gods, they decide to add paid search results to it, so I am now helping get someone else’s word out when trying to get my own word out-UGH.  That’s annoying.  Hope all is well.

Irony, thy name is Small Business Internet Marketing.