Google
AdSense is an
advertising program that was launched in the
middle of 2003 by
Google, the popular
search engine.
Google acts as an intermediary between a
vast number of advertisers and an equally impressive
number of website owners.
Advertisers sign up with
Google and create text ads that they
would like to be displayed.
Google displays these ads on the results
pages of searches that people conduct from
Google.com. The
Google
AdSense program allows these
advertisements to show up on pages all over the
internet. To see some of the ads themselves, take a
look at the sidebar on
this page. The webmaster
simply places a special code in their page and
Google
AdSense takes care of the rest. Perhaps
the most valuable aspect of the system is that
robots (specialized
computer programs that
scan internet pages) analyzes pages that ads will be
placed on to determine which ads are most relevant to
the page's content