Former Google employee Sanmay Ved, who casually browsed Google's domain name-buying service, noticed the tech giant's most-visited domain became available for purchase after the ecommerce platform added it to his checkout cart.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's top advertising executive, told Advertising Week attendees that "crappy ad experiences" are behind the increase in ad-blocking tools -- and that Google, along with the advertising and publishing industries, must fix it.