Comments on: Follow Up- Google Search

by: Dakota Spain

Mon, 24 May 2010 02:13:45 +0000

Never tried this form of advertising, but I was wondering if anyone else has had success with this?

by: Kinaray-a

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:06:56 +0000

Haven’t tried this yet but seems temtping… tsk tsk

by: Download Freeware and Shareware Software

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:23:47 +0000

Yeah, I have never even tried it myself, its probably because I do not concentrate on such areas, if that is possible.

by: gurtey

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:09:44 +0000

welll…does this really works….man and is it against TOS..huh…i really wanna know

by: Gry dla Dzieci

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:12:57 +0000

BS, I say. Has anyone other opinion?

by: Rocket Spanish Reviews

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:47:30 +0000

This technique is not illegal but definitely against adsense terms of service.

by: Kevin from Affiliate-Marketing101.com

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:36:24 +0000

I have never made any money by displaying the Google Search Box on any of my sites. Pennies at the most.

by: North Georgia Website Design

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:57 +0000

Thanks for the post Eli. The Toolband link no longer works, but it is still good advice.

by: Alvin

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:59:14 +0000

For me it is unethical t put search button on others webpage without their consent.

by: rent back

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:40:29 +0000

this sounds very very lucrative. but how can you “con” a load of people to instll you app or web browser.

sounds like hard work to me..

by: Jack (Vhaeos)

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:31:15 +0000

Well, first off, thanks for this post. Now, onto my bump in getting this to work.. I can’t seem to make the homepage change optional in the install. What I’d like is for at some point in the install the user be asked if they’d like their homepage changed, just a tickbox that says something like “Change homepage?” or something along those lines. I’ve toyed around with Setup Specialist quite a bit, and couldn’t seem to figure it out.

So, if anyone knows how to do this, or knows of any other software that may aid me in doing this, I’m all ears.

by: eman

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:06:47 +0000

No worries. I’ll change. I also would love your advice on a bigger project I’m working on. I’ll send you and email to get your thoughts.

Thanks!

by: Eli

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:35:21 +0000

shit sorry man
I just realized the mistake i made in the post.
The actual regkey to change is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
its not a bad idea to change the default in the local machine to though.

I updated the post.

Honest mistake

by: eman

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:19:52 +0000

Thanks! everything seems to be working fine, but the default homepage does not change automatically after the installation. Meaning, the user will have to go to Internet Options and set the homepage to “default” and save this.

I was under the impression that after the complete installation the default homepage would change automatically?

by: Eli

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:01:19 +0000

In setup specialist click on Start Programs. Its just to the right of Program Icons. Then click “Setup Finished.” Then right click in the box and click New >> Program. Then put in the path to your exe. Click OK.

For the homepage method you shouldn’t have to grab the sid. You should just be able to put in your search box code Adsense gives you.