Eli, that would probably be because it only offers family-friendly ads. You might have had some word on there that related in some manner to the fund quote information.

mblandi, they're unobtrusive text ads like the ones google itself uses. Probably not something you'd want on your site if you had a lot of competitors, but pretty cool if your site would bring up a lot of related but non-competitive sites, making a better experience for the user, and some $$ for you.

pcd2k, that's pretty cool.

Not sure I'd use adsense much but would probably use

http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html

a lot more often if it stays with us

Can someone enlighten me as to how these are different than the other relevance related ads on say, blogspot blogs, or MeFi?

Just because it can come up with an ad does not mean the ad
is at all appropriate. My erotica page gets a single ad: for
T Rowe Price Fund Quotes.

Kickstart, on https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

it says specifically "AdWords ads may not appear on personal pages."

Now, whether that means "here is my kitty isn't he cute" on geocities, or extends to a weblog about coding, I couldn't say... but the link here in the first place goes to a weblog about google, and he's using adwords... so I'd venture to say adwords are OK on blogs, at least if there's a point to the blog beyond "the daily ramblings of joe so and so"

The application *does* require that you include a business name, though.

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ernie, cypher, you might have robots.txt files on your website. I tested it on 4 different sites I run, and all of them (each fairly obscure) had ad results, except the one that has a robots.txt file. In reading the detailed information about AdSense, you have to add a specific allowance for AdSense to robots.txt or it cannot read the page and displays public service ads, which you do not get paid for.

Also, it uses the text from the page your ad is on. The one linked below doesn't really have any text google could use to determine what ad fits the page.

I've heard that they will not allow any "personal" site such as a blog to use AdSense. Can anyone verify?

Believe so, yep. At least that's my explanation for

  http://www.lafferty.ca/stuff/misc/peacecorps.jpg

I'm assuming the default is Cancer Society, National PTA, Red Cross and Peace Corps?