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US ads for UK region

Anyone else seeing this?

         

mangotude

2:26 pm on Jan 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Sales were going well today, and then there was an inexplicable dip - and having reached three hours I looked into it further.

On my own pc I'm receiving UK targeted adverts - but on another pc elsewhere in the UK, its getting US adverts.

I did a search on both PCs for loan

on mine - three sponsored results in blue at the top - all co.uk

on the other pc - no sponsored results at the top - all the results on the right are for US companies - some using $ in the adtext.

to my knowledge the pc receiving the US ads has been online for several days, so there's been no IP change or anything like that.

Sweezely

12:34 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Are you on AOL by any chance?

peewhy

12:47 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Doesn't it relate to the visitors' region. So if you are im the UK, you'll see UK units, If in Canada, you'll see Canadian?

Have you look via the Preview Tool?

mangotude

4:20 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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both PCs are in the UK

it's reverted back to UK for both now - but was like that for several hours.

peewhy

5:10 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I wonder if the mystery lies in two different data centers?