Last week, Yahoo announced enhancements to their search marketing platform. Part of that announcement was that they added the day parting option, giving advertisers the ability to say they want to show their ads on specific days and different times or even increase their bids at different times.

The one option Yahoo has added that the other engines do not have, is that they give you the ability to specify if you would like the day parting settings to be based on your time zone or the searcher’s time zone. I was fairly confident that Google set it based on you (the advertiser’s) time zone.

I confirmed that today by asking that question in a Google AdWords Help thread. The response lead me to a answer at Google help that read:

So there you have it. Even features such as day parting can get very granular in its targeting options. Google doesn’t give you the detailed level of control Yahoo gives you, but do advertisers need it?

Here is a poll, let us know what you think:

Should Google AdWords Add Day Part Time Zone Preferences? ( surveys)

Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.