More precisely, the place we want to reach is just between <div id="yui-main"> and <div class="yui-b">. First problem: there’s not Adsense ad that matches the available space: the 768×90 leaderboard is just a bit too wide. I picked a simple solution: I placed 2 ads side by side: a 468×60 banner plus a 234×60 half-banner. It just fits the available width (in the default theme, Wind, at least) and compared to the big leaderboard it also uses 33% less height (I’ve always thought that 90 pixels is starting to get a bit too big).

Let’s get started then; once again the file to edit is /themes/wind/views/page.html.php.
Find:
<div id="yui-main">
<div class="yui-b">
…and between those two add your Adsense units. You need to place them in a few divs so that they lay side by side instead of stacking on each other. Here’s a full code sample (NB: I wrote the divs added for layout in bold):

<div id=”yui-main”>
<div style=”width:702px;height:60px;border:1px solid #bbb;margin-left:10px;”>
<div style=”float:left;”><script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “ca-pub-9471398824076666″;
/* 468×60 for pcr gallery */
google_ad_slot = “8724036694″;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
</div>
<div style=”float:left;”><script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “ca-pub-9471398824076666″;
/* 234×60 for pcr gallery */
google_ad_slot = “2196553125″;
google_ad_width = 234;
google_ad_height = 60;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”yui-b”>

That’s all You can see the result there.
Note that the reason why there’s a border here is because I used it to find the proper dimensions. It actually looks nice too IMO, however it will spoil the layout a bit for people with ad-blocking software… so you may want to remove the height as well as the border for the div containing the ads. That’s what I did on my gallery indeed.

NB: if you’re not the I-modify-files-by-hand type, you can use a plugin/module such as this one, too. Personally I’m always a bit afraid of those Gallery modules, they don’t seem to be regularly maintained yet…

You can see the code and the result down there (NB: due to a bug in WordPress there’s a line break between the 2 radio buttons, which is not supposed to happen in the final design)
You can also download all this (HTML code + logo + “secure search” picture) in this archive.

Wiki4Games   
Web

<form method="post" action="https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi " target="scroogle_window">
<div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><label for="Gw"><img src="/0custom/scroogle_logo.png" width="95" height="32" alt="Google search via Scroogle"/></label></div>
<input type="text" name="Gw" id="Gw" size="10" maxlength="225" value="wiki4games"/>
<input type="image" name="sa" alt="Search" width="41" height="22" vspace="2" align="top" border="0" src="/0custom/secure_search.png"/>
<input type="hidden" name="n" value="2"/>
<div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;">
<input type="radio" name="d" id="but_web2" value="www.wiki4games.com" checked="checked"/><label for="but_web2">Wiki4Games   </label>
<input type="radio" name="d" id="but_web1" value="*"/><label for="but_web1">Web</label><br/>
</div>
<!--<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"/>-->
</div>
</form>

A final note: if you want to insert that box into MediaWiki, the easiest way is probably to use the PCR GUI Inserts extension. The configuration would then be something like:

require_once( $IP."/extensions/PCR GUI Inserts/pcr_guii.php");
$wgPCRguii_Inserts['SkinBuildSidebar']['on'] = true;
$wgPCRguii_Inserts['SkinBuildSidebar']['content'] = array
    (
    array('Search box',
	'<form method="post" action="https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi " target="scroogle_window">
<div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><label for="Gw"><img src="/0custom/scroogle_logo.png" width="95" height="32" alt="Google search via Scroogle"/></label></div>
<input type="text" name="Gw" id="Gw" size="10" maxlength="225" value="wiki4games"/>
<input type="image" name="sa" alt="Search" width="41" height="22" vspace="2" align="top" border="0" src="/0custom/secure_search.png"/>
<input type="hidden" name="n" value="2"/>
<div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;">
<input type="radio" name="d" id="but_web2" value="www.wiki4games.com" checked="checked"/><label for="but_web2">Wiki4Games   </label>
<input type="radio" name="d" id="but_web1" value="*"/><label for="but_web1">Web</label><br/>
</div>
<!--<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"/>-->
</div>
</form>)
    );

Unfortunately, Gmail doesn’t really hide your “real” e-mail address behind the “not as real” one: you can find the real e-mail in the e-mail headers, in the sender field. Here is an example header (modified to hide e-mails and stuff, of course ):

MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: thenicknameiwanttohide@gmail.com
Received: by 10.229.89.1 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jan 2011 07:32:45 -0800 (PST)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2011 16:32:45 +0100
Delivered-To: someguy@somewhere.com
X-Google-Sender-Auth: sm8dg5Gdqs84gqswcxfzDFpS9s6
Message-ID: <randomstringrandomstringrandomstringrandomstr@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Test_email?=
From: The name I want to show <thenameiwanttoshow@mydomainname.com>
To: someguy@somewhere.com
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=001365494266e56a1f6198741347

Now, this doesn’t really seem to be a big issue since, unless you’re sending spam big time, noone will ever check the headers of the e-mails you send them. This becomes a problem, however, once you consider that some (many?) e-mail providers will display your “hidden” e-mail as the sender of the e-mail… voiding all your precious forging efforts.

At this point, I guess that you’ll want names Well, here is a short list:

• Hotmail, of course. They display forged sender as: “realemail@gmail.com from Your forged name”
• Yahoo! Just the same as Hotmail.
• Outlook. I don’t remember precisely what they display, plus maybe this depends on the configuration (I observed that at a company where I worked), but they do display the unforged e-mail.

In case you’re wondering (and too lazy to test ), Gmail on the other hand behaves properly and display the forged e-mail (granted that the contrary would be quite shocking though).

So, in conclusion, when you really need to spoof your e-mail address, you’d better really write from the box from which you want it to appear to come. Or at least check if the recipient’s e-mail provider doesn’t bust forged e-mails.

Anyway. As I don’t like to trash pieces of codes, I thought I’d be a good idea to store here the former lines we’ve had for years to display Google stuff…

The search box (hopefully I’ll be placing a Scroogle search box soon!):

<form action=”http://www.google.com/custom” method=”get”>
<div style=”text-align:center;width:170px;background-color:#bdf;border:1px solid #555″>
<label for=”q”><img width=”75″ alt=”Google search” src=”http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif” height=”32″/></label><br/>
<input value=”notepad.patheticcockroach.com” name=”domains” type=”hidden”/>
<input id=”q” maxlength=”255″ value=”DRM” name=”q” size=”20″ type=”text”/>

<div style=”text-align:left;”>
<input id=”but_web1″ value=”" name=”sitesearch” type=”radio”/><label for=”but_web1″>Web</label><br/>
<input id=”but_web2″ checked=”checked” value=”notepad.patheticcockroach.com” name=”sitesearch” type=”radio”/><label for=”but_web2″>This blog</label><br/>
</div>
<input value=”Search” name=”sa” type=”submit”/>
<input value=”pub-9471398824076666″ name=”client” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”1″ name=”forid” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”ISO-8859-1″ name=”ie” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”ISO-8859-1″ name=”oe” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”GALT:#008000;GL:1;DIV:#336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:336699;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;” name=”cof” type=”hidden”/>
<input value=”en” name=”hl” type=”hidden”/>
</div>
</form>

The Adsense (not really sure it’s worth keeping, actually…):

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-9471398824076666″;
google_ad_host = “pub-1556223355139109″;
/* 120×600, created 4/18/08 */
google_ad_slot = “1026798805″;
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 600;
//–>
</script>
<script
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>

Scroogle (http://www.scroogle.org) aims at letting you use Google without getting tracked. They work very simply: they act as a middleman between you and Google: you send your search query to Scroogle, they send it to Google, Google sends Scroogle the result, and finally Scroogle sends you the result. In the end, Google has no way to know you’re the person who did the search (they have no way to get your IP or to read or write a cookie on your computer) so they can’t add it to the huge database they already have about you from their other services (Adsense, ReCAPTCHA, Analytics, Gmail…). Additionally, Scroogle also offers the ability to search over an encrypted (SSL) connection, so your ISP (or corporate network, etc) can’t see what you’re searching either.

If you’re on Firefox, there’s a little extension to add Sroogle SSL to your search box. If you’re on Iron or Opera, read on.

Scroogle in Iron

In Iron options got to Basics → Default search → Manage. Then click on Add and configure a new search engine as follow:

• Name: Scroogle SSL (you can choose another if you want)
• Keyword: scroogle (you can choose another if you want)
• URL: https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s
  Finding this URL was relatively easy: when you’re on Scroogle SSL search, look at the source. You’ll find that the search form has action “https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi” plus the search field is sent via method POST as name “Gw”. Iron doesn’t let you configure POST engines, but I tried my luck at GET and it just worked. In an SSL request the final part of the URL is encrypted so placing your search query in GET isn’t a confidentiality issue either. %s is just the search terms, as mentioned in the Add Search Engine box.

Press OK, and then click on Make Default. You’re done, the omni-bar will now send your searches to Scroogle, via HTTPS.
NB: It may happen that Make Default is disabled (the first time I added Scroogle, it was, but when I tested the procedure again on another PC while writing this post it wasn’t!). To enable it, you need to make a search on Scroogle via the omni-bar (start typing the search engine keyword then pick search from Scroogle in the drop-down list, then type any search query). You can then go back to the Search Engine management screen and make Scroogle the default engine.

Scroogle in Opera

The process is a bit similar in Opera. In the search box, expand the drop-down menu and go to Manage Search Engines…. Then click on Add… and fill the form as follow:

• Name: Scroogle SSL (you can choose another if you want)
• Keyword: s (you can choose another if you want)
• Adress: https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s

Finally, check “use as default search engine” if you want. Press OK everywhere, and you’re done.

Congratulations, you’re one step closer to getting untracked by Google!
(The next step being to remove Adsense from this notepad… :s)