Begin forwarded message:
From: Vint Cerf <vint@google.com>
Date: October 26, 2009 8:27:57 PM EDT
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>, David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: for NN and IP
Brett,
"Google is committed to providing users with relevant, high-quality ads that contribute to a good experience. As part of this, an ad's destination URL is required to work properly and link to a working webpage; it cannot link to a file that requires an additional program or application to open or run.
Your ad was disapproved because your destination URL linked to a PDF file, which violates our policy.
To have your ad approved, please make sure that your destination URL complies with all of our guidelines for destination URLs athttp://adwords.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guidelines.cs&answer=47174. You can then resubmit your ad for approval by following the directions athttp://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6273."
this is what I got back when I explored the problem with your ad:
"Google is committed to providing users with relevant, high-quality ads that contribute to a good experience. As part of this, an ad's destination URL is required to work properly and link to a working webpage; it cannot link to a file that requires an additional program or application to open or run.
Your ad was disapproved because your destination URL linked to a PDF file, which violates our policy.
To have your ad approved, please make sure that your destination URL complies with all of our guidelines for destination URLs athttp://adwords.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guidelines.cs&answer=47174. You can then resubmit your ad for approval by following the directions athttp://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6273."
Lauren and Dave, would you also put this up on your respective lists?
v