Re: TargetingIdeaService returning 0 results for certain seed texts

2011-05-18 Thread Kevin Winter
Hi, We don't have the exact date that this change rolled out but we do know it was recent, within the last month or two. -Kevin -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwo

Re: TargetingIdeaService returning 0 results for certain seed texts

2011-05-18 Thread Jamie Cobbett
Thanks Kevin, that explains it. Do you know if this behaviour has changed recently? On May 16, 4:34 pm, Kevin Winter wrote: > Hi, >   When you tell the API to set as included parameters the same text you are > using as a seed keyword, you will only see results that contain the seed > keyword.  I

Re: TargetingIdeaService returning 0 results for certain seed texts

2011-05-16 Thread Kevin Winter
Hi, When you tell the API to set as included parameters the same text you are using as a seed keyword, you will only see results that contain the seed keyword. In the API only, the core engineers decided to remove the seed keyword from the results as this information was more appropriately re

Re: TargetingIdeaService returning 0 results for certain seed texts

2011-05-13 Thread Jamie Cobbett
"parents are fighting" is another search string that returns zero results. On May 13, 2:31 pm, Jamie Cobbett wrote: > This is an example of a request ("elk antlers for dogs") that reports > 0 results, but the Google web Keyword Tool returns a full set of data. > Our users report that this has cha

TargetingIdeaService returning 0 results for certain seed texts

2011-05-13 Thread Jamie Cobbett
This is an example of a request ("elk antlers for dogs") that reports 0 results, but the Google web Keyword Tool returns a full set of data. Our users report that this has changed recently. Strangely, doing an identical request with the string "elk antlers" returns "elk antlers for dogs" in the res