I had to share a post I found on Wired.com today that made me laugh out loud. First, if you're a blogger, and you've tried Google AdSense to monetize your blog, I'm sure you've learned that it will not make you rich...not even close, which leads to a lot of disappointed bloggers who hoped the program from the search engine giant and leader of all things online would help them make a few bucks.
So here's the funny thing. Daniel Lyons who writes the Fake Steve Jobs blog, spoke at Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) headquarters on November 5th. During his speech, he discussed the history of his blog including his sarcastically honest and negative opinions of Google AdSense to which the audience (who I'm assuming is made up of Google employees) laughed out loud. Here's the quote from Dan's speech:
"Well, I finally thought, you know, I'll try Google AdSense. Hahahahahahahahaha! That, you know, you make a lot of money on it, as I'm sure you know. It's a real profit maker for bloggers. Really wonderful program. I want to thank you all for that. Thank you so much. Really, really great. I've made a fortune on those little AdSense ads. People click on them. Yeah, terrific. Great job . .um .. So that didn't work out."
Check out the YouTube video of Daniel Lyon's speech below (he's a really entertaining speaker by the way). He talks about Google AdSense at 9.21 into the video (which shows as 41.51 on the YouTube video's clock counter).
What do you think? It's not a secret that Google AdSense is useless for bloggers, but what do you think about the audience laughing at Dan's negative story about the program?
I'm not surprised the Google employees laughed, he clearly said it to be funny and I'm sure they realize the truth of what he's saying. The fact is even if he's not making a ton of money off AdSense, Google is, and in this case their employees are laughing all the way to the bank. Who's going to stop them? Until someone comes up with a better solution, Google has every reason (and right) to laugh at the little guy who doesn't benefit from their growing monopoly.
Posted by: Jeremy | November 19, 2007 7:54 AM | Permalink to Comment