People pay Google to put their little ads up. Max decided to let them put them here to help pay the rent.

As has been mentioned, clicking just to make money for the 'cat does cost the advertisers on a "per-click" basis, so we shouldn't just click them at random - if they're friends or ours; but sometimes you just can't resist when they're strangers (or just strange). It is intended to be helpful for us to have links to things suggested by the "content" here, and sometimes it actually is.

But the real question for CarolC is "are you one who has found the invisible clickies?"

John