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 completely different meaning. Targeting your advertisement starts with the keywords, imo you should leave the keywords alone.
I think this move will not remain without consequences, if google thinks that languages have accents for no particular reason and chooses to ignore them it will raise awareness of language conservation groups all over the world and it will be considered a nuisance by everyone who now have to type their accented keywords with a plus sign or quotation marks just to ensure that google will not mess it up. A trivial example is "røge" which means smoke in Danish, in the new google SE interface I get everything BUT røge and instead end up with french cousin "rogé", even a Russian one, simply because my browser is French, if I type "røge" I mean "røge" ! Of all this doesn't explain why your non-roman character domains show significantly lower results, this imo undermines using google #SERP/SV as a reference. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
