Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2011-02-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Bram, I don't think there is any way to get that information from the API. Best, - Eric On Feb 14, 3:31 pm, bramiozo wrote: > Hi Eric, > > what I mean is: > suppose I do a query for some accented term in the latin characterset > and the google adwords api gives me > a non-zero number, how do

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2011-02-14 Thread bramiozo
Hi Eric, what I mean is: suppose I do a query for some accented term in the latin characterset and the google adwords api gives me a non-zero number, how do I know if that number represents the real number of queries for that term and not for the unaccented term ? Greetings, Bram On Jan 5, 11:5

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2011-01-05 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Bram, I'm not sure I understand the problem. Can you provide an example that demonstrates the problem? Best, - Eric On Dec 30 2010, 7:21 pm, bramiozo wrote: > Hi Eric, > > is there a consistent way in which I can check whether the results > apply to the seed keywords ? > I have tried checki

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-12-30 Thread bramiozo
Hi Eric, is there a consistent way in which I can check whether the results apply to the seed keywords ? I have tried checking the keywords from the result with the seed keywords but that doesn't do the trick, I see in the results from the web tool that indeed the accents are removed, shouldn't th

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-11-09 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Manuel, Thank you for your feedback, I'll pass that along to the appropriate team. Please be clear that this behavior I'm describing only applies to the TargetingIdeaService and the Keyword Tool, and has no bearing on Google search results or ad serving. Best, - Eric On Nov 7, 1:25 am, manue

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-11-06 Thread manuel
You say: "statistics for accents and non-accented keywords are combined into a single search volume number." This is absolutely wrong. Google can't simple combine two absolute different words, with a complete different meaning into one, just because they "look" alike. I see Google is now doing th

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-11-05 Thread manuel
Hello This is a VERY SERIOUS issue. "Vídeos" is Spanish "Vidéos" is French "Videos" is English "Música" is Portuguese "Musica" is Spanish "Secretária" is a woman (pt) "Secretaria" is a building (pt) "País" means country (pt) "Pais" means parents (pt) This used to be correct on previous Adwo

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-10-08 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Calford, The TIS choosing to combine statistics for the accented and non- accented version of a word does not reflect any changes in the way Google.com search or AdWords ad serving behaves. As far as I know all accents are treated the same way. Best, - Eric On Oct 8, 9:10 am, calford wrote:

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-10-08 Thread calford
I just ran a small test and got a bit confused i searched for café in google.fr and google.es and the adwords campaigns on the results page are related to coffee. So the search and adwords does take into consideration the accents, but the api just doesnt show the results? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-10-07 Thread calford
If this does not apply for all accents, can we get a list of the ones that are affected? On Sep 30, 10:15 am, bramiozo wrote: > Thanks Eric. > > I would suggest, if I may, to set to SE-algo so that it always > searches strictly if one keyword is given. > > Greetings, > > Bram > > On Sep 28, 3:5

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-30 Thread bramiozo
Thanks Eric. I would suggest, if I may, to set to SE-algo so that it always searches strictly if one keyword is given. Greetings, Bram On Sep 28, 3:54 am, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi All, > > To be clear, the changes in howaccentsare handled is part of a > larger change in the Keyword Tool

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi All, To be clear, the changes in how accents are handled is part of a larger change in the Keyword Tool backend, and the behavior is consistent across the API and the web interface. My current understanding is that the statistics for accents and non-accented keywords are combined into a single

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-27 Thread JSL
For your information, this "intended behavior" is quite an accomplishment in the sense that queries for some of the top latin accented keywords return absolutely no relevant adwords data. Regardless of the "locations and languages" settings, a query for "crédit" (french) returns either nothing or

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-25 Thread bramiozo
Eric, I have to urge a reconsideration of ignoring accents, this is really undermining the usefulness of the api and what is more, of google SE itself. Accents are part of most languages which have a roman characterset, they convey meaning and in some cases the presence of accents might indicate a

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-24 Thread Zap
The old keyword tool was supposed to have been shut down last month, but it is still running. For how long? Please keep it running forever... But, does it still get feed with updated data? Why this move? You really wanted to avoid people using the tool to search for unique keywords stats didn't y

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-24 Thread bramiozo
Thanks Eric, did they tell you why because accented terms in French, Portuguese, Spanish ARE searched. This behavior applies to what roman character languages exactly and/or to what accents ? For instance German seems to be ok with the umlaut (ü,ö etc.) but ç with French is ignored, how did they d

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-21 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Just to confirm, this is the intended behavior. Best, - Eric On Sep 20, 5:12 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this was intentional, but I'll circle back with the > engineering team and confirm. > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Sep 19, 10:23 am, bramiozo

Re: db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-20 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, I believe this was intentional, but I'll circle back with the engineering team and confirm. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Sep 19, 10:23 am, bramiozo wrote: > Besides the rather large numerical discrepancy between different > backends one thing I noticed was that the accents for t

db migration, are accents now ignored for spanish terms

2010-09-19 Thread bramiozo
Besides the rather large numerical discrepancy between different backends one thing I noticed was that the accents for the Spanish terms are ignored, is this a bug or is this intentional ? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://a