I received quite a few of these, and, well, it’s basically a scam. There is no need to register these Chinese domains. Here is a copy of the email:

—– Original Message —–
From: Tony
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:07 PM
Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property

Dear Sir/Mad
On 24th Oct.Lovix Co. Ltd sent us an application ,they trying to register xxxxxxxx as domain names and use it to promote them in Google and Baidu. But after auditing we found this name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar , it is our duty to notice you . We only can keep the domain names safe in our auditing time , once over this period , we should accept their registration , So, please ask your It manager or responsible person to contact me as soon as possible .
I’m looking forward to hearing from you .
Yours sincerely Tony

Tony
Tel: +86(0)513-80118538
Fax:+86(0)513-80118539
website: www.registryid.com

Just ignore “Tony” and delete these emails.

I am a big fan of the AdWords Editor … where you can control and edit your campaigns “off line” and make massive changes and even do imports of data quite easily. The new version? I’m not too happy with it. Not only is it slow on all of my machines, but it doesn’t bring in the new dynamic quality scores.

If you can’t have the current data, what’s the use of using the tool? For now, I have uninstalled it and will wait to hear of an update.

Google has updated their Webmaster Guidelines and something is missing:

Google’s endorsement of submitting to directories … mostly DMOZ and the Yahoo! Directory.

A Google spokesperson, John Mu, stated:

I wouldn’t necessarily assume that we’re devaluing Yahoo’s links, I just think it’s not one of the things we really need to recommend. If people think that a directory is going to bring them lots of visitors (I had a visitor from the DMOZ once), then it’s obviously fine to get listed there. It’s not something that people have to do though

We know that Google’s own directory is nothing more than a scraped version of DMOZ and what is really interesting is that Google has dropped the link to that directory. Is Google distancing themselves from the ODP? From directories in general? We have seen the last three PageRank Toolbar updates directories just get completely hammered.