But that has quietly changed. Google has decided to reward webmasters with quality free websites chance to rake in some cash for their hard work.

Google’s contextual advertising program Adsense has been around since June 2003. Back then program was open only to webmasters with their own domain names and many quickly took up opportunity to cash in on their labor of love sites.

When Big G announced that they were expanding Adsense to accommodate free sites, some people scoffed at idea because they believe that freebie sites are full of junk.

I first learnt of this move while browsing around a few webmaster forums and to my surprise some persons were against this move by Google. I believe that Google’s intention is to bring in as much as possible quality websites under Adsense umbrella.

My first application for Adsense was rejected and I got an explanation stating that my site was still under construction. I thought that this was a mistake so I reapplied same day and got accepted. Right away I was able to log in to my account and start putting code for ads on my pages.

If you do a search for "digital camera" on Google.com, Web's top search engine, you'll get back over 7 million page results.

Refine your search to a specific model, such as HP Photosmart 935, and you get back 137,000 page results. Now do a search on BestBuy.com, CircuitCity.com, and Amazon.com and you'll only find it listed one time, and on that site it costs $60 more than I paid for it at Target.

Even though web makes it easy to search out products we want to buy, sometimes that mountain of information makes it almost impossible to find best deal.

To solve this problem there are "personal online shoppers" which help you seek, find, and comparison shop multiple offers for just about any product you want to buy, online or offline.

An online personal shopper-type service enables you to log on to a single site, enter product details you want to search, and then have website give you back a list of prices and places where you can purchase item.

The personal shopping assistant sites that rate best don't accept commissions for sale of items through their services because getting paid based on what customer buys would eliminate unbiased product comparisons.

The best services make their money by selling targeted advertising to merchants and only displaying products in their search results based on price and features.