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As we explained last month, the Google AdWords keyword evaluation system will be changing to give advertisers more control over the keywords they find important. This change is now live, and you can read about the impact on API users here.–Patrick Cha…

Want to save bandwidth downloading reports? Here’s how!rfc2616 defines a HTTP/1.1 header called Accept-Encoding. This lets HTTP clients ask for a compressed response using a header such as:Accept-Encoding: gzipGoogle servers support gzip encoding, but …

As we explained a few weeks ago, the new quota structure for the AdWords API went into effect yesterday (August 1st). The Quota & Usage page gives you all the details about the new system. This change has been accompanied by a significant quota increa…

Soon, we’ll be changing the Google AdWords keyword evaluation system to help give advertisers more control over keywords they find important.From an API perspective, there is a new minCpc field in the Keyword object that you can use to determine how mu…

Starting August 1, we’re introducing a significant change to the AdWords API quota system. The new quota structure will value operation types differently. While some operations will still consume just one quota unit, other operations will consume mor…

We made a small change to the AdWords API WSDL files today, changing the declared type of KeywordId from int (32 bit) to long (64 bit). The server has treated keyword IDs as longs since our launch, and the online docs declared them as such. Only the WS…

Hi AdWords API Developers,We’re happy to announce that we released two new items today: Creative IDs in reports and a Java Client library.Over the last few months, many of you posted to the Developer Forum stressing the usefulness of Keyword IDs in r…

Hi AdWords API developers,We are performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 9pm to 11pm PDT on June 24, 2005 (Friday). While all ads will continue to run as normal, you will not be able to perform any API operations during this time. We apolo…

Hi AdWords API developers,The API will be unavailable from 9pm to 9:45pm PDT tonight (5/20/05) for routine AdWords system maintenance. All ads will continue to run as normal, but you will not be able to perform any API operations during this time. We a…

Hi AdWords API Developers,Today, we are integrating the automated AdWords editorial policy checking system into the API. This mechanism will identify AdWords editorial policy violations and return error messages immediately. This will allow you to co…

Hi AdWords API Developers,Based on your feedback on the Developer Forum and our increased server capacity, we are raising quota limits across the board starting May 1. The quota structure remains the same as before; we are simply raising the quota all…

Hello, developers! We keep cranking out the AdWords API features, and this time around we have two new things to offer you.The first new feature is MCC reports. Now you can create your reports with statistics for all of the campaigns you manage under M…

Hi AdWords Developers,IDs in reports are now available (and this time we mean it!). As we announced yesterday, when you schedule a CustomReport you can now request for IDs to be included so you can better sync up the data with the rest of your API cal…

Whoops… we made a mistake. The IDs in reports are not quite yet working. We’ll post another message when they are available.Sorry for the confusion.Nelson Minar, Software EngineerRohit Dhawan, Product Manager

Hi everyone,Last night, we updated the AdWords API Terms and Conditions. We made several minor changes in order to further clarify a few points and to correct a typo.The changes are as follows:Section II. 3c) Added “or for transmissions directly to Go…