I'm sure they're real. In addition to the headline stories about big $$$, there's this: Scott says she posted an unsold novel on Google and earns about $5 a mo

I'm sure they're real. In addition to the headline stories about big $$$, there's this: Scott says she posted an unsold novel on Google and earns about $5 a month from the AdSense ads on the site. Al Needham, 74, who runs a site about the care of bees (bees-online.com) from his home near Boston, reaps about $250 a month. "Forget about getting rich overnight," says Alonzy. "It takes time to learn." -- There are bajillions of AdSense customers, so some of them are making bank and most are making squat. I don't know that it's easy to make money from an adsense site, but if I were doing it, I would NOT make a geek site. Geeks don't like to click (heck, I use AdBlockPlus so I don't even see them!).