Yesterday, I wrote about ads appearing when you do a Google search. Google also has a program, called AdSense, that can display ads on personal websites that are related to the contents on the page. The site owner gets paid per click (currently $0.50, but I’ve heard that it’s lessening). You can get a preview of the kinds of ads that would appear on your page here; just enter your URL and see the ads. Here are the ads that would appear on my current front page if I participated in the program:

Obviously, the June as Accordian month post has an impact.

I also wrote that there no ads appear when you search for “square dance” or “square dancing” on Google. This is true; however, there is a square dance ad that appears when looking at the rec.folk-dancing newsgroup through Google Groups. Here’s the ad:

and it links here: Square Dancing in Palo Alto

However, with a page refresh, the ad was replaced. My guess is the Palo Alto group put a fairly low limit on how much they’re willing to spend, so the ad appears less frequently.