Making money is a dream for many, but it’s not as simple as many think it to be. It’s as hard as making money offline. There are always many ways you can make money online, you just need to find out what really suits you and where you picture yourself  working comfortably.

There is something for everyone on internet. Whatever you choose, it’s difficult to start earning good money straight away. Put some effort and reward would be furitful. We have included a few sites considered good for earning money.

1. Get Paid to Advertise

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Google Adsense – World’st most popular advertising program. Make Money from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.

Chitika – Offers various types of advertising to suite your needs. Rated 2^nd best after adsense by ProBlogger.

BulletAds – Performance based online advertising network. Sell ads from $20 to $2000 per ad depending upon the page impressions per day.

Clicksor – Offers Inline text link advertising, underlining words in your posts. We do not encourage new bloggers to use them as readers get irritated.

Text-Link-Ads – Offers you to approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.

BlogAds – You can sell your blog ads here. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by someone in their network.

LinkWorth – Too many options to fit your advertising needs. Choose text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to appear on your site.

Vibrant Media – Offers in-text based advertisements.

CrispAds – Offers you the access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You can choose advertisers that suite you the best.

AdBrite – Allows you to approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.

Yahoo Publisher Network – Offers you to pay targeted ads on your site.

2. Get Paid to Write

PayPerPost – Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews of their sponsors on your blog.

BlogToProfit – Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.

Creative Weblogging – Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will pay you $225 per month.

Smorty – Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.

Blogsvertise – Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your own blog.

Review Me – After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you $20 to $200 per post that you write.

Squidoo – Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to charity. Referred by some bloggers.

SponsoredReviews – Offers you to write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your own blog. They also charge some transaction fee for their services.

3. Affiliate Networks and Programs

Commission Junction – Offers you good commission on sales in exchange to product promotion by different advertisers.

LinkShare – Offers you the facility to use individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.

ClixGalore – Allows you to advertise products from 8000+ advertisers.

ClickBank – Allows you to promote 10,000+ products with huge commissions.

ThinkAction – This affiliate network claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of earning over $100,000 dollars per month which me to seem not real. But do give it a try if you like J

Avangate – Allows you to make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.

LinkConnector – This affiliate marketing network offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to keep you safe while conducting business.

4. Paid Social Media Programs

JustAnswer – Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.

MetaCafe – Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you receive.

Dada.net – Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring friends and driving traffic.

Jyve – Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of some help.

Cruxy – Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.

BitWine – Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of your interests and choice.

Ether – Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your rates and call availability.

UpBlogger – Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you receive to your uploaded content.

ChaCha – Get paid to offer support to members of their community.

AssociatedContent – Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.

myLot – Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.

5. Earning Money Everyway

Google User Research – Google Pays you money to participate in their user research studies online.

Microsoft Research Panel – Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their products.

Amazon Mechanical Turk – Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.

eJury – Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.

WorkingSOL – Get paid to provide technical support for many large comapnies all over the world.

Mahalo Greenhouse – They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their directory.

Focus Pointe Global – Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion. Available to teens and adults.

Agloco – Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.

Arise – Make online money providing support via phone, email and web platform for various companies on this site.

Tutor.com – Tutor people online and earn money.

ForumBoosting.com – Allows you to make money posting in forums.

Share-A-Pic – Share your pictures by uploading on this website.

SlashMySearch – Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.

Yesterday, Google has announced it officially that they will have their Operating System. Google has been competing Microsoft in many ways for quite long now. Google has started various projects over the years including Documents, Mobile, Search Engine and now the Operating System.

This shows that battle between Google and Microsoft is not new. Considering this, Ben Parr from mashable has performed some comparisons between Google and Microsoft, let’s have a look at a few highlights:

1. Google Search Vs Bing Search

Google: Google’s Search Engine is right now the most popular thing on web and has a page rank of 9 plus. There is no other search as popular as Google.

Microsoft: Microsoft earlier had Live search, which nobody really liked except Microsoft. But not long time back they brought the new cool “Bing” search engine. This so far has gone quite well and has made Google notice it.

Result: Google still wins from miles in search engine race.

2. Web Browser, Internet

Microsoft: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is running from ages. 90% of web users still use it. Its heavy and bugs are always easily noticeable. A majority of knowledgeable developer’s worldwide agrees that if people stop using Internet Explorer. Big revolutions can immediately be brought to web browsers. Personally using Internet Explorer sometimes reminds me of old ages in this very fast world

Google: Google’s Chrome is fast, live and growing every day. Google’s OS is also being said to as light as Google Chrome. This browser still misses some important features but Google believes to have a reason for that and will keep adding more taste to it.

Result: Google are ahead now in terms of technology, popularity makes IE win

3. E-mail and IM

Google: Gmail is Google’s best tool as far as instant email communication is concerned. Now with addition of Google Wave it is supposed to be much stronger. It is fast and brought revolution to communications worldwide. GTalk is also very light and is spreading fast.

Microsoft: While Microsoft still has the big picture they have the leading email communication service Hotmail, and the still most used IM “Windows Live Messenger”. So, Google still needs to go a long way to compete Microsoft here. Microsoft has also got the most widely used Ms Outlook Express with a lot of good features.

Result: Microsoft is still very ahead.

4. Operating System

Here comes the big fish now.

Microsoft: Most dominant since the arrival of Windows platform. They generate $60+ billion of their revenue each year from their Operating Systems. Microsoft has brought quite many fantastic GUI platforms to their users.

Google: Google so far has announced arrival of their Web OS. But it’s still to find out what would be so special and challenging in it for Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems. Being open source for this operating system can be a big advantage over Microsoft in future.

Result: Microsoft is still big winner.

Microsoft vs. Everyone

These were the few main highlights discussed above but Google still have a long way to go, because Microsoft still has everything everyone needs today. Here is a small comparison of some of the other features Microsoft and everyone is providing:

5. Windows Live vs. Facebook

6. Microsoft Office vs. Open Office

7. Microsoft Expression vs. Adobe CS

8. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Adobe Flash Player

9. Microsoft Live Calendar vs. Google Calendar

10. Windows Live Translator vs. Google Traductor

11. Winows Live Mail (Feed, also in Outlook Express) vs. Google Reader

12. Windows Live WorkSpace vs. Google Docs

13. Windows Live Maps vs. Google Maps

14. Microsoft Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth

15. Windows Live Spaces vs. WordPress

16. Zune vs. iPod

17. Zune Software vs. iTunes

18. MSN SoapBox Video vs. Youtube

19. Microsoft Encarta vs. Wikipedia

20. XBOX 360 vs. PS3

21. WorldWide Telescope vs. Google Sky

and the list keeps going. If anyone really wants to battle Microsoft, they have a very long way to go.

Finally Google did it!!! According to Google’s official blog today, there new operating system “Google Chrome OS” will be released in the 2nd half of 2010. Of course as expected, this operating system will be Open source and available later this year.

Earlier this year Microsoft were bringing “Bing” live and were doing good so far. But now Google has really entered into the software giant’s house. This operating system would be as light as Google Chrome is. This OS is said to be for those who live their lives on web.

So far Google didn’t disclose a lot about their new big thing but we will be bringing you as much as info we can.

An Italian cartoonist, Federico Fieni has portrayed really a cool cartoon showing battle between Google and Microsoft, have a look at this:

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Mashable’s Ben Parr has an interesting writeup on Google Wave, a new application unvieled at the second day of Google I/O conference and scheduled for release “later this year.”

Since its launch Google wave has become the developer’s dream.  The concept behind Google Wave is to “merge” all communications on the web at a single place. It can be you chatting your friends, writing emails, IM and various other software. The special ability to display the hybrid sequence of communication makes it more interesting. Google wave shows these conversations live in your browsers: you will see your friends type character-by-character. You can even disable the option to let others know you are typing something and suprise them with your instant messages

Google wave is created by two of the guys who were also behind Google Maps, with a small team in Sydney.

Features don’t stop here, Google wave also lets users drag attachments from your desktop into Google Wave. It loads that file and sends it immendiately to anyone in the conversation or even in emails. It also lets you embeds any attachments and conversations into any blog just by drag n drop. So, its multi-tasking features are HIGH!

Google Wave will be launched later this year and right now its only available to selected group of developers, who will be able to create their own wave servers. Its also an open-source project with a lot of API integrations, so developers can make a lot of user-driven innovations and extensions for the platform.

Its just the second week and bing looks grown up so much, Bing users are increasing day by day and its becoming the next big thing. Compared to the week prior to launch. Bing now has 16.7% searcher penetration and a 12.1% share of search results pages among all US workday searches. Those numbers are also both up compared to its first week in the wild.

Microsoft has spent approximately $80 to $100 million on a campaign to advertise Bing. The current popularity of bing shows that Microsoft’s advertising campaign is at driving a measurable number of users to bing.

Compete confirm the same what comScore is saying- Bing’s number of searches is growing. But Compete also declared that number of searches per user for bing is quite low, which implies that Microsoft has been able to entice people to try Bing out, but so far, it isn’t getting a measurable number of new searchers to stick around.

It may also be the case that search results are too accurate and users do not find it necessary to Bing it further. If its really the case then its good for Microsoft.

The competition is going to be very tuff now, If Microsoft really want users to switch from Google or even Yahoo, they quality of bing search results will have to be at top from the beginning.

So far bing has done good. It will be interesting to see how Bing’s growth continues, and if it does, from where they are taking users.

What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test.

Michael Kordahi, which I feel compelled to disclose is a Microsoft employee, has set up such an experiment, dubbed “BlindSearch” which you can try here.

On the site, you enter a single search query which results three sets of unbranded results. After viewing the results, you are given an option to vote on one set of results, which then reveals the provider and adds it to the tally.

On the site, you enter a single search query which results three sets of unbranded results. After viewing the results, you are given an option to vote on one set of results, which then reveals the provider and adds it to the tally. I searched for The Windows Club and voted for what I felt were the best results.

At the time of writing, Google was leading at 40%, followed by Bing at 38% & Yahoo at 22%.