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Pixazza is an interesting service that Google recently invested in.  It’s similar to AdSense in that it lets you make money from your site by automatically adding contextual ads to your content.

Unlike Adsense, instead of adding text ads to text webpages it hyperlinks products in your pictures.  Since image recognition technology is in its infancy, the hyperlinks are created by people working for Pixazza.

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I’m not sure I’d actually get much use out of Pixazza.  I don’t usually post a lot of pictures, and the ones I post are intended to support the blog post they’re on.  They therefore don’t tend to contain a lot of products or they only reference a blog post I’ve already written about.

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