Everyone likes to waste time in a way or another. Ever since GMail, Google has come up with a wealth of stuff to test and play around with.
I use Google Desktop daily. It comes with a sidebar and the SDK to add gadgets to the sidebar.. but honestly I can’t bear losing the space that the sidebar takes. It only comes as a distraction and I feel that I’d be wasting too much time programming something that I wouldn’t use myself.

One thing I was curious to find out about is AdSense. I get around 230 page views per day and most of them are Japanese users that come to download the GPU plug-in for PSX emulators !
With those numbers, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t become rich anytime soon. And so I effectively subscribed to AdSense just to find out how it works.
One month into it and I’ve earned $2. One has to make at least $100 before being able to get any money. That means that, at this rate, it will take me 4 years before I see any money 8)
..I wonder how much of Google’s business is based on people like me that do AdSense just to try it, or on people that hopelessly try to make a living with it (Americans are very adventurous when it comes to business 8).

Well, my lunch break is over.. back to the boredom of another useless day in the office.. no wonder I grab every opportunity I get, to mess with Google’s stuff.

woo !!!

Posted by Davide Pasca in Diary