In an effort to explain why an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama is ranked so highly in its Image search results, Google has purchased online ad. The picture, which appears on Google Image Search, shows the photo of a monkey superimposed over the face of the First Lady.

As Search Engine Land reported last week, Google had removed the Obama image saying that the site hosting the image violated Google’s guidelines by serving malware to visitors. But the same image remained available on other sites.

The Google ad says this:

Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.