March 4, 2008 by Andrew Nevelos.

Google is showing a search box on certain search results. The searches where all done on on branded terms. For example on Borders the search was simply “borders.”

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May 29, 2007 by Andrew Nevelos.

Relying on the network of sites which are displaying your Google paid listing can be counterproductive. Google touts the ability to read the text on the page and distinguish between coffee, programming and location when typing in Java however below is an example of an X-Cart ad showing up on a page that describes a vulnerability in the software which allows your site to get hacked.

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February 26, 2007 by Andrew Nevelos.

Why aren’t my Outlook emails appearing in my Sidebar Email gadget?

All of a sudden I stopped seeing e-mail on my sidebar from Google. The mail comes from an exchange server so I didn’t think there was anything on my machine that was causing the problem.
I tried to remove the gadget and ad it back in. I rebooted my computer. Closed and opened outlook all to no avail. 
I was getting ready to remove the google desktop when I found this post:
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/
answer.py?answer=30817&topic=1586

I followed these directions and my sidebar works again! I must have un-checked that at some point when I was poking around Outlook. I was trying to reduce the load on the memory and Outlook seemed to be a bit of a hog so I started flipping switches! Oops!

Open Outlook and go to “Tools” > “Options” > “Other” > “Advanced Options” > “Add-In Manager.” Is “Google Desktop Outlook Addin” listed? If the listing is there, is the box checked?

After I checked that box I was able to get mail on the sidebar again.

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