My First Anniversary of Google AdSense

I have been with Google’s AdSense for a year now, and I must say that I am quite impressed with its ability to provide a revenue stream for my content. It’s been an fairly painless process, but there’s one major downside.

–I’m making money for Google.–

I’m not usually a oh-my-god-everything-Microsoft-does-is-better nor am I a why-would-you-ever-think-of-using-anything-other-than-Microsoft person (one of the reasons I love being in Silicon Valley), but still - as a shareholder of Microsoft, I want to see it succeed!

Unfortunately, as of right now Microsoft does not have an AdSense product. And thus, Microsoft and I can’t make money together from my content. And vendors around the world have only Google and Yahoo (overture) to advertise with.

I hope this changes… soon!

But for now, Google’s done me well, and I do think that the ads provide value add to some of the entries.

(BTW, note that I said a ‘revenue stream’ - not profit stream! This is not quite a profitable operation given the time I spend on it, and how much my time is worth!)