(Tip for Google staff reading this; Ads targetted at the UK should use English, not US English)
I am not the best spellerer in the world but come on ;)
Urm .. that's it, just thought it was funny thatsall :)
Ads targetted at the UK should use English, not US English
Ha. I get paranoid about that, wondering sometimes if I used a term a Brit would find incorrect or distasteful. I try to look at the other ads and be a bit more generic with my ad copy, but i never know for certain! =P
e.g. I make a point to not say 'shipped', apparently items are 'dispatched'? Too weird.
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So if you write something like 'centre' instead of 'center' you get disapproved? Blast those bloody blokes!
[edited by: PPCBidder at 11:21 am (utc) on Dec. 7, 2004]
Lots of words on t'internet are american though - shopping cart for example. And in programming, anyone remember cobol "organization section" :) I guess it's even more common for non-english speaking cultures to have to put up with "wrong" words. :)
Whilst it may impact upon the US market, I seriously doubt that many in the UK would be put off by the lack of a 'u', in 'colour' or the addition of a 'z' where there should be an 's'. The same when it comes to specific words - we here in Great Britain seem to fully understand and appreciate the peculiarities of the American language.
Much of Europe now uses US English, sadly, whereas ten years ago this was not the case. Even the BBC uses American-ised English across it's international pages - which is just an awful shame!
Nonetheless, as Willy Brandt said:
If I am selling to you I will speak English, but if you are selling to me dann mussed Sie Deutsch sprechen...
Syzygy
I think it is funny that Google staff do not check words using their own tool - Google - before disabling ads because of spelling.
Point taken, chrisgarrett. ;)
Just thought I'd add a few comments on the review/approval process:
* Given that it is high priority to everyone concerned to have ads reviewed and approved ASAP, the process has to happen very quickly indeed. This doesn't really leave time for research on individual cases, given that many, many, thousands of ads are reviewed every day.
* If you ever feel that a disapproval has been made in error (such as in the case of different spelling from one country to the next mentioned here) then please free to respond to the disapproval email, succinctly make your case, and ask that your account be noted so that the 'exception' be allowed in the future. You'll find that we're actually pretty reasonable about this sort of thing.
Cheers! ;)
AWA
[edit]fixed the inevitable typo ;)[/edit]
[edited by: AdWordsAdvisor at 7:56 pm (utc) on Dec. 7, 2004]
I wasn't complaining - honest, just having a giggle :)
Heheh. But I still want you to have your ads the way you want them. So know it's possible. ;)
AWA
