The reverse eggcorn, or acorn
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Victor Steinbok reports that a Google search on {eggcorn} pulls up some strange stuff, in addition to hits for things like the Eggcorn Database and discussions of eggcorns on Language Log, ADS-L, and elsewhere. It also pulls up sponsored links to sites that don't have eggcorn anywhere on them, but do have acorn on them, in particular, sites selling Acorn brand slippers.
This is, in a sense, a reverse eggcorn effect, in which acorn is interpreted as a variant of eggcorn. We could call it an acorn.
The effect seems to be limited to the sponsored links. Web searches work the way you'd expect them to.