Orkut Spam Scrap: AdSense is dead!

Just today when I logged into orkut to check if my ever devoted friends have scrapped me - I did find some unfamiliar person posting a scrap to me as follows:


First glance at this, I knew this was some hoax and I checked out the guy's profile (http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=1081345186944013950) - turns out this guy is a networking guy trying to get people linked together. No wonder he would send such spam scraps. His name is Michael Thomas and he says his location is India - a highly unlikely name for a person residing in India - but then again there could be people with that name too in India - who knows and who cares!

Next I simply checked out the link he had posted and here it is:


After seeing this I almost fell off my chair - not out of fright, but out of laughter. Google's main cash machine is AdSense and how can it be dead.

What really is AdSense?
AdSense is an intelligent piece of software code written by Google that can think artificially and know exactly what kinds of Ads to be displayed on what pages you browse on the Internet. Yahoo and Microsoft too display Ads on their search results but they are mostly irrelevant Ads - they could very well be displaying an Ad for a Kid's store on a Football sports page. But Google's AdSense does not do that - Ads are displayed according to relevance. AdSense has sought its place in several of Google's products:

Gmail: Ads are displayed on the right based on your mail's keywords. Not to worry - all this is machine operated and there is no human intervention, hence privacy is out of the question
Blogger: Blogger users can enable displaying Ads on their blogs and make money out of it
Orkut: Recently Google has started to put in AdSense capability to Orkut profiles based on communties and many more...

Take a look at the detailed tour on the Google's AdSense website and you can understand the stuff much better

http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/index.html

So, by no means is AdSense dead and don't believe this guy and the website looks like a hoax into coaxing people off their money.