Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by seanmcdirmid on Friday October 18, 2013 @08:53PM (#6574877)

Very strange: can't get Google to show me ads at all no matter what I type, like "sofas" or "erectile dysfunction" which should trigger a bunch of ads. Perhaps ads pushed consider geographic location?

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by Xixi on Friday October 18, 2013 @10:30PM (#6575100)

I live in Japan and "sofa" brings no advertisement, but "ソファー" brings three. So I guess it does indeed consider geographic location.

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by seanmcdirmid on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:09PM (#6575171)

Wow! That makes sense. Sure enough, searching for "沙发" brings up three ads for the PRC market. Here I was thinking that Google scaled back their advertisements significantly, they are just more precisely targetted :)

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by f0under on Friday October 18, 2013 @09:06PM (#6574906)

Are you using Adblock?

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Re:Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings by seanmcdirmid on Friday October 18, 2013 @09:29PM (#6574958)

In Chrome? I don't think so. I see no ads from Google at all, even if I try very hard. I am in the PRC market, which might have something to do with it, but even Bing will serve me ads if I switch to Bing.com.

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