Tom, offense neither perceived nor taken - (my competence is questioned daily :) )
I hear you loud and clear on the value of "real data" and I have plenty of that except of course it's real and then links back to our client's website and maybe the copy I grabbed wasn't what they're currently sending via existing channel .... Oh what fun. Sure would be nice to see what searchers see but that leads us to http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=737 On Sep 15, 3:22 pm, Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't mean to question your competence what i'm getting at is small > real world testing is the best way forward in my opinion. Your learn a > lot more about Google Base by some real life handling of items and > accounts. Once this is done you can scale and scale. > > Listing items under dummy domains with test data will more than likely > see your items disapproved, because data and items are review by > Google Base Content Specialists. In the case of products you must have > a fully commerce enabled site with isn't something thats just made > up. > > Tom Wilson > Freelance Google Base Developer and Consultantwww.tomthedeveloper.com > Google Base Tools -http://dev.tomthedeveloper.com/googlebase > > On Sep 15, 10:10 pm, Celebird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it depends somewhat on how "real" you want the testing. > > > if you're simply testing api constructs and performance > > against custom item-types then there's little or no issue > > with respect to tom's point. > > > but if the goal is to test valid data against valid sites > > or playing in the products item-type space i would > > be deleting those items as fast as they were created -- > > having nothing to do with customers trying to buy items > > but rather google-base disapproving the items or closing > > your accounts based on invalid product-data and sites -- > > but especially if people start to buy the items. > > > you can have perfectly valid syntax and api testing > > that doesn't work at all with actual customer data -- > > or worse -- jeopardizes your customer's accounts; > > unless all the accounts are with you; but there may > > be other similar issues if that's true. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
