Hey there,
I’m on the Search Quality Team at Google. We’re aware of the situation that’s been discussed here.
In particular, I wanted to note a couple of things:
1) Our engineers recently noticed that our site: queries (number of results listed for a search) were showing bizarre results. This has turned out to be tied to a bad data push, and we’re fixing this right now.
2) I am *NOT* on the AdSense team, but I’d hope common sense would suggest to fellow Digg’ers that a click on an AdSense ad does not necessarily result in a charge to an advertiser and a credit to a publisher.