Google Adsense Wired Collection

Google Adsense reporting system has been down sinse the wee hours of the morning with no word as to when the system will be back up. Countless amounts of inquires have been made on Google Adsense message boards as well as in their customer reporting system. The only message thus far that has been returned is that their engineers are aware of the issue and are investigating it. 

Their has been no mention as to if the system is still counting impressions or if the system is recoverable or not. 

To be down for so long I question what is going on? Is this a major outage that will have major consequences. We have yet to find out the answer to this…

Till then we all keep our fingers crossed hoping for the best….

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A number of you have informed us that your reports are substantially lower than usual today, or aren’t being updated. Our engineers are currently investigating the issue and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Please be assured that your account data has still been tracked, so this issue will not affect your earnings or payments. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for being patient.On that note, we’d like to let you know about the new Known Issues page, where you can check for updates on this reporting issue and other existing issues. There can be occasional hiccups in our system, but we hope that this new resource will help increase transparency and keep you informed. Whenever possible, we’ll also try to include temporary workarounds and updates about each issue as we work to resolve them.Thanks again for bringing this reporting issue to our attention - we encourage you to check the Known Issues page and our AdSense Help Forum for updates.Posted by Sunil Subhedar - AdSense Publisher Support

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Google today announced that ‘Adsense for Search’ will be now be powered by the ‘Custom Search’. If you have not yet used the ‘Adsense for Search’ as of now, it would be a good time to start (
), because now you can do many more things with the search functionality, with the help of advanced customization options of Custom search.

Here are the list of few changes/benefits for you:

Previously with ‘Adsense for Search’ you had to have a ‘Web Search’ with your site search. But now with custom search you can only have the ‘Site Search’. This will help you not to loose any visitors to web search and still earn the money.
Custom search indexes “all the pages of your site, which are indexable”. So no more worrying about getting your pages indexed in Google and then coming to your ‘Adsense for Search’. They will be available fast. And, they will be available all.
You will be able to present search results for a group of your “own sites” or a list of sites from your “friend circle”. You can even do exchange on this. Like “You list my results at the bottom of your results and I will do the vice versa”. Helpful for both.
You can now choose a location for the ads to appear.

So, now you know that you can do many more things with it. So go and use it. Now you are not loosing your visitors to Google. That what is the harm using it. Nothing I would say.

Here is the original article from Google Adsense blog.

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