Well, I seem to have picked up an unwelcome New Year's Eve friend in my Chrome browser: an extension called RanDeomePrice that keeps reenabling or regenerating itself and causing little price deal pop-ups or slide-ins to appear on certain web pages such as Amazon, and extra little links to appear on Google search results. Isn't that sweet? And such a nice way to bring in the New year?
In my experience, such as with the thing that causes random words and phrases to become links, the only solution is to wipe out and reinstall Chrome.
Oy!