Hi Martin, The core issues behind the anomalies you previously noticed are complex and still being worked on. I'm glad that the team's recent work has improved the results, and let us know if you see further problems with the data.
Best, - Eric On Nov 30, 5:15 am, Martin <martin.lars...@jajja.com> wrote: > We have noticed a positive change for local search volumes on most of > the words we've previously looked at. > > It also seems as the "diacritically challenged" words are now properly > returned in response from the AdWords API. > > There are however some examples that still have suspiciously low > volumes. Compare "flyttstädning gävle" with "flyttstädning uppsala", > where Uppsala is a considerably larger Swedish city than Gävle. > > Is the issue officially resolved, or is the resolution work in > progress? > > Best regards > -- > Martin > > On Nov 3, 7:22 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Martin, > > > Thank your for reporting this issue, and for including detailed > > examples of the problem. As you mentioned this isn't an API specific > > issue, but I'll forward this feedback on to the appropriate team for > > consideration. > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Nov 2, 6:46 am, Martin <martin.lars...@jajja.com> wrote: > > > > Hi (Eric?), > > > > In Swedish and other Scandinavian languagesdiacriticletters are not > > > just umlauts, but are actually new letters and compose new words. > > > > We have noticed strange search volumes for keywords withdiacritic > > > characters (in Swedish: åäö) that should have fairly large search > > > volumes in the localized targeting Sweden/Swedish. This problem is > > > probably common in several other languages with otherdiacritic > > > characters, but we are mainly interested in Swedish keywords. > > > > One example is 'friskvård' (meaning health care) which is collated to > > > 'friskvard' (nonsense). There are other examples where the collation > > > of non latin characters change the meaning of the word completely, > > > e.g. 'väder' (weather) vs. 'vader' (calfs) or 'hål' (hole) vs. > > > 'hal' (slippery). > > > > For the example 'friskvard/friskvård' there are 12 local monthly > > > searches using exact match, but for the less generic keyword > > > 'friskvård uppsala' (where Uppsala is a city) there are 880 local > > > monthly searches using the same matching. One could argue that the > > > search volumes actually are correct, but we think it is very > > > improbable. > > > > The following localized searches suffixed by the 5 largest Swedish > > > cities (ordered by population size) have suspiciously low or missing > > > search volumes for "diacritically challenged" keywords: > > > > 'catering stockholm' - 74000 > > > 'catering göteborg' - n/a > > > 'catering malmö' - n/a > > > 'catering uppsala' - 12100 > > > 'catering västerås' - 320 > > > > Since we fail to retrieve local search volumes for exact matching, > > > this might be a different problem, but we suspect the non latin > > > character collation here as well. Two keywords that seem to deviate > > > from this problem and have reasonable search volumes are 'catering > > > örebro' and 'catering norrköping'. > > > > All problems are reproducible in the online AdWords keyword tool, so > > > it's not an API or client specific problem. > > > > Best regards > > > -- > > > Martin -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
