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Fri 05 May 2007Searching for ad revenueWired:What does it take to make money on the internet? I wish I knew the answer: in the last month, I've managed to make a grand total of $10 (€7.35) on the internet. On the other hand, other website producers doing the same as me earn as much as $300,000 over the same period, with hardly more resources. They may, I suppose, have something else going for them, writes Danny O'Brien.We both have Google Adsense, the search engine companies' advertising program. Since its launch in 2003, Adsense ads have appeared on hundreds of thousands of websites: they're the "ads by Google" text boxes your eyes have probably learned to filter out from your favourite sites.