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Overture Tool Timeouts?

Discussion in 'Domain Traffic / Keyword Research' started by weycresto, Nov 24, 2006.

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  1. weycresto

    weycresto Active Member

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    Just lately the UK Overture has been extremely unreliable, with frequent timeouts. It doesn't even work well if you login to a Yahoo Search Engine Marketing Account, and you would think they would keep it working for that.
    Anyone else experiencing problems with the OV tool?
     
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    grantw Well-Known Member

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    Same here, It looks like it has been throttled even more than it was, virtually unusable for me at the moment.

    Grant
     
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    ...Same here I'm afraid and not just for the UK results.

    As Grant says - it's getting worse! :eek:
     
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    It's crap, someone said in reply to when I questioned the source, how could I use somewhere faster when overture is the source? well you can, find another outlet and it will be faster, I don't know why.

    I use OvertureCheck.com - Find the most searched keywords! these days, much faster, more range.
     
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    Perhaps sedo or 123-reg bought it?

    Those links look pretty similar to me! Someone should be suing the other?
     
  8. weycresto

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    Just tried it and it works very well. Why should that be quicker though than using the O/T tool from within Yahoo Search Engine Marketing? Very odd.
     
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    I may have to send a Paypal payment your way....
     
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    Hi everyone my first post here.

    Talking to a friend In the usa last week he told me that the Overture server was no longer being maintained and the service wil be stopped next year ?
     
  13. weycresto

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    Well they will have to provide something for Overture/YahooSE Marketing customers.
     
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    I can't get it to work anymore, can you?
     
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    Me neither, it appears to be totally screwed at the moment. Getting about 1 result for every 30 domains checked and it takes forever!

    Grant
     
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    Is there an alternative? I rely on the OV score a lot in decision making....
     
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    i did too, not had ov for days now :(
     
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    Overture is great when it's there but honestly I haven't used it in months which explains the lack of traffic I get on new domains. Correction, I try to use it but the bugger aint moving for me. You can't even get half decent results on overturecheck.com anymore and I know it lies when it can't find anything.
     
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    I haven't found one typo with any traffic, I guess they're all taken. lol Trust me, I searched for days using type generating tools, bulk availability checks, and bulk OVT tools. None. I guess the only way to get any is to get them dropped, eh?
     
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    No not at all, you just need to know how to look :)
     
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