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How has adsense & google changed your life?

A reflection back over the last 5 years

         

drall

4:50 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Having started our website as a hobby as most are started 7 years ago my friends and I saw our little piece of the web grow and grow fueled by this tiny search engine called Google. As the implosion of Internet advertising and tech occurred we watched from the sidelines as the scams came and went and made a bet on what the future would bring.

While everyone around us said we where nuts to continue to put in literally hundreds of hours a week into websites that where making us much less then our college degreed jobs we had a vision of the future and just could not let it go.

Greedy companies came and went by the thousands but still we held on and produced high quality content for our ever-increasing network of sites. Enter Google adsense 4 years later. We quite literally went up 4000 percent in income overnight. We couldn’t believe the amount of revenue Google was sharing with us?

The little guys, the guys that had been stepped upon and backstabbed by every greedy corporate slimebag out there for the last 4 years watched in utter amazement as this company made all of there dreams come true overnight.

I have an autistic son and always wanted to have a swimming pool with a big fenced yard for him and a big house for my family, and Google has given them that.

Yes I worked hard and so did my friends but Google has NOT been greedy, they shared what others didn’t. They rewarded us for our quality users and content with there ingenious method of advertising.

They have changed our lives forever.

So as things heat up in the war with MS and Yahoo who are basically allied at this point against you G, I just wanted to share with you Google and the public how much you have changed our lives. You proved us right, you showed my family and friends we where not nuts all these years and you made everyone I know ask what I do for a living:)

Thank you Google for everything and have a happy holidays!

ann

5:40 pm on Dec 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I had been using adsense for search for a long time...rather it was on my site making very little money, until Feb. of this year when I finally became well enough to get back to some serious work.

Thank you Google for being available to me, you have not only paid me well you have helped to relieve depression and increase productiveness which I am very happy about.

Thanks to Google AdSense I now have a piece of property in the country with a much newer home than I was living in. No, it is not paid for but I did put a 'substantial; down payment on it and when all the unpacking is done I expect to be very happy here.

Things I could not have done without Google. True I diversify but adsense is the major player.

So Thanks a great big bunch Google :)

Ann

JoeS

4:15 am on Dec 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Google is definitely God!

I wasn't making much money on my sites and now I'm earning a pretty decent income just on a couple thousand visitors a day.

However, I think may health has declined because I spend too much time online and not enough exercising and socializing.

vbignacio

4:00 pm on Dec 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Me, i got into making websites late last year first as a hobby, and second, i have this product i thought was unique that i intend to sell over the internet.

Because i have no knowledge of html back then, i just downloaded a free trial of a wysiwyg editor and came up with a one-page website and used a free webhost. No, i didnt make a single sale from that product(even up to now) but working, tweaking and improving that site led me to Google Adsense.

After a year, i'm already earning in US dollars without leaving my country (almost all my friends have already gone abroad to work because of the economic crisis my country is enduring). I now work for somebody else only for twice a week, and hopefully, make my living entirely from the internet this 2006.

Thank you Google for giving me this opportunity and hope to grow further. Without your program, I might be working overseas already, away from my wife and two-year-old daughter. May your Adsense program last for a very long time!

Waypointer

5:53 pm on Dec 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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vbignacio,

That's a great post; you made it happpen and that's why you're with your famiily while, unfortunately, your friends are not. It also reminds us all how important this outlet (i.e., AdSense), to one degree or another, is to all of us.

I add one more time, THANK YOU GOOGLE!

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