You've actually just highlighted another problem with Google there as well ;)
Google doesn't really know what you're searching for, it doesn't understand the context which is why you see shopping results when you're just looking for information. Yahoo actually tried to solve this with a slider with an option for more shopping/info results but it didn't catch on as users don't want to click anything, they just want to type words in to the box and get the perfect answer - be it an ad or an actual result. If you make a user do anything else then you've already lost the game.
This is another reason why I don't think Google will fix this SEO problem it has any time soon, and I definitely don't think this current 'fix' will solve it either
Google doesn't really know what you're searching for, it doesn't understand the context which is why you see shopping results when you're just looking for information. Yahoo actually tried to solve this with a slider with an option for more shopping/info results but it didn't catch on as users don't want to click anything, they just want to type words in to the box and get the perfect answer - be it an ad or an actual result. If you make a user do anything else then you've already lost the game.
This is another reason why I don't think Google will fix this SEO problem it has any time soon, and I definitely don't think this current 'fix' will solve it either