I’ve been placing Google ads on the site. Hopefully, you won’t even see them.

You see, I get a lot of search engine traffic for a few posts some time ago. Why not try to recoup some of the hosting costs?

Using Planet Ozh’s masterful plugin, Who Sees Ads, theoretically none of you should see the ads when you visit the site, and they should only show up for folks who come from a search engine or on posts that are over 30 days old.

Please let me know if it’s not working (that means visit the site so you can see if they’re there!!) so I can fix it or ditch the entire experiment.

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Ah hah! I’m not crazy.

Earlier today I tweeted that my Gmail storage space had increased to 9030MB as seen below.

I tried two computers and tried disabling plugins. No dice.

Just a moment ago, this post from the official Google blog rolled in.

So now it makes sense. You see, before I got all flickr’d, I paid $25 for 6GB of storage on Picasa Web Albums. That is the one program I would love to have for the mac, partly because of its tight integration with Picasa web albums. Yes I have the uploader for iPhoto, and I already ordered my copy of iLife 08.

Anyway, it looks like I am sharing the free space from Picasa Web Albums with my Gmail account. The numbers shown here are not accurate, which tells me they are still rolling out the updates.

Mystery solved, and I broke it quick tweet style.

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