There is no doubt that I am a great fan of Google. When it first started as a search engine it was a blessing for me, it helped me complete many of my reports and presentations. Searching scientific literatures for your Thesis or any other projects/presentation was very hard in country like Nepal, but thanks to Google I could access many of those. I often used Google Scholar to scan peer reviewed articles, although most of the sites that Google Scholar routed required registration and/or fee, I could at least get abstracts from those journals.

Then came the Gmail, it came in the time when I had a whim of having as many email accounts, from different providers, as I could. I don’t know why but most of my friends of that generation also adhered to that. Among all those email accounts only couple survived and Gmail is one of them. Maybe it has to do with its size limit to start with, but later I found it very user friendly; and with Gmail account I could get access to other applications provided by the ever growing Google Empire.

I loved Picasa, free software from Google that manages pictures in my desktop. With Picasa web album I could share my pictures with my parents back home. Earlier I used Yahoo Photos or Winkflash, but I found Picasa supreme of all. I also used Picasa to upload pictures in web.

Google Earth was my favorite time killing machine; I used to fly from my hub to all Seven Wonders of the World. Google Earth helped me show my home in Kathmandu to my colleagues at work. Though for Kathmandu they don’t have crisp resolution, it was still good enough to identify my house. Since I also work with Geographic Information System (GIS), I and my supervisor had an animated discussion about using KML and KMZ file from Google Earth for presentation, instead of maps produced from ArcGIS. It was brought up to discussion because of it’s simplicity over the complex nature of ESRI or ERDAS Imagine Software (only for simple manipulation, Google Earth is still no match for intensive GIS work).

Few months ago I started using Google Blogger, mostly for documenting my random thoughts; I had no idea that in such a short time I would be exposed to so many viewers. Thanks to Google Blogger, I also made few friends in blogging community. And most important of all, each and everyday I am further enhancing my penmanship and creativity.

I know there is still a lot that I need to explore what Google has to offers, but isn’t it overwhelming that you get all those services under one roof for free. In my path of exploration I now want to try Google Adsense. Adsense matches advertisement on your site based on its content and you get paid for all the clicks you get. When going through pages of different Bloggers I saw tons of Google Ads, so curiosity got better of me. I read through Adsense Terms and Condition and wondered how effective will be Google ads on the pages of all those Bloggers and how much they can make.

So, I decided to add Adsense to my site and strictly stick to Google policy and see how effective this program is. I am curious what kind of ads will appear in my site (as it says based on the site content) and how much revenue it will generate. I signed up for it few hours ago and it seems that it will take at least a week before I will get answers/ads. Although my motive is primarily on checking its efficiency, I won’t mind few extra bucks. ;)