[Google Ads Transparency Center API] Return results for advertiser search

[alexbarron]

The Google Ads Transparency Center API supports a text param for free search, but it just matches for the keywords anywhere in the ad or advertiser name. A customer wants to be able to look up specific advertisers to get their ID and then use that for future queries.

The Ads Transparency Center supports searching for an advertiser and selecting a specific advertiser entity with their legal name and operating country.

After selecting result:

If I search new balance using our text field, it doesn't actually return any results:

mercedes returns many results, but the ads are from several different advertisers:

However searching in actual Google Ads Transparency Center, I get the option of selecting a particular advertiser:

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