This is very surprising. Yesterday I was searching for FRE 401 and came up with the Cornell Law web page on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Apparently Cornell now uses Google Adsense to offset the costs of their website. I’m not knocking it. It’s always good to make money when you can, but this is very surprising for an institution of Cornell’s stature to use pay per click ads.
The implementation of the single banner ad does raise questions though. Although not technically against the Google adsense policy of encouraging clicks, they certainly do create the suggestion you click on them. Right above the ads, the pages read “Donations cover only 20% of our costs.” Wow. Definitely pushing the limits here.