Learn Google Search: December 2005

Best of Google Blog

These were the topics in official google blog which got top hits this year.
These are the most popular posts

- Our explanation of "Googlebombing"
- A celebration of email and Gmail
- Google Earth's partnership with National Geographic about Africa

Read about the whole statistics here on their official blog

Unable to get IP in gmail from emails from gmail

In gmail to view the time or date a message was sent, or to view the email address of the person who sent you a message, click 'More options' and then click 'Show original.' This displays the full header of a message.

Learn to read full email headers

Email headers determine where a message is sent, and records the specific path the message follows as it passes through each mail server. To follow the path of a message chronologically, read from the bottom of the header, and work your way up.
Gmail Help Page

I have noticed a strange behavior in this. If I am getting mail from a gmail id , I am unable to get the IP address of the sender as documented.
Example

X-Gmail-Received: 2bba1a28b5627a1cb6bb4638c70a2d9ee53c7c52
Received: by 10.64.193.18 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:56:44 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <9eb10cd20512300256v7690a954n2bdce656f072056f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:26:44 +0530

10.64.193.18 refers to some internal google ip ( not the ip of sender.

Site Search Feature

Try this google site search to search within a site.
[ ragging site:hindu.com/2005/11/ ]
Here we are searching for broadband only in the domain hindu.com , newspaper of India
By noting the url pattern we can carefully craft the query to get the news from a particular year ( 2005 here ) and month ( 11 november here in this search )

Google Themed Ads for Christmas

Whenever themed ad units are available, google adsense display them only to users in the appropriate locations, as determined by user IP address. For example, Fourth of July-themed ads would be visible only to users located in the U.S., while users throughout the world might see ads with a New Year's Eve theme.

You can enable or disable themed ad units by following these steps:
>Log in to your account at www.google.com/adsense.
>Go to the My Account tab.
>On the Account Settings page, scroll down to the 'Ad Type Preferences' section and click 'Edit.'
>Depending on your preference, check or uncheck the box next to 'Enable themed ad units when available.'
>Click 'Save changes.' Your selection will apply to all your AdSense ad units.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/decking-halls.html blogs that Unlike the fruitcake, though, these ads don't last for years and years – they're just present until December 26.