Dan was telling me a month or two ago that he's using Google
AdSense on his blog. Now that I'm actually doing this regularly, I figured I'd try it out, and while I'm at it, on a few parts of my other sites.
I'm highly curious what sort of ads it will dish up. There isn't exactly a massive market for products related to developing Russian languages patches for FreeCiv, for instance. Initial results are not all that positive, but we'll see. It may be a very short-lived experiment :-)
This is presently deployed here on The ChangeLog, on the directory indices on the HTML-to-Gopher gateway on
quux.org, and the message pages of the list archives on
lists.complete.org.
On the monetary side, running all this costs me about $600 per year. While I would be quite surprised if AdSense brings in that much, maybe it would at least bring in enough to pay for some more disk space for the Gopher server...
I'll keep you updated.
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