Japanese Character Ads in my Adsense today

[creativepart]

I have an ad from Adsense showing up in my US English webpage today with Japanese characters! Not just some, the whole ad is in Japanese. I know it's japanese because the link has the word Japan in it. The rest of the link is encrypted.

What's up with this?

I've emailed Adsense, but I don't like it. My account is set for US English only.

[leadegroot]

I would suggest that Google is interpretting your site's IP address as in south east asia. I wonder if your site's IP has changed recently?
(I see the same thing on my development box as it has a peculiar IP which was asian until last year, and they obviously havent updated their lists)
Either that or its a real weirdie and only temporary!
But an email to them is the right action - they should be able to fix you up pronto :)

[miguelito]

I am seeing some very weird things today, finnish adverts on a 100% US english site with a US IP and server base. Also some chinese ads with indecipherable characters. Earnings have crashed about 90 % so far today but no sense complaining about that (yet)
Today looks like yet another Google adsense #*$!-up.

[irock]

I haven't encountered this type of situation before. When I was surfing my sitein Asia, the ads often show me Chinese ads.

[nonni]

Something is definitely screwy at Google - and has been for a few weeks. My traffic is strong, my affiliate earnings are strong, and adsense has fallen into the basement. And threads on this board complaining about adsense ("March 15, 2006: Very Low Earnings") are being locked to prevent further posts and let the thread sink, apparently because 'adsense always fluctuates' and we should 'stop whining and live with it."

[edited by: nonni at 11:30 am (utc) on Mar. 16, 2006]

[kartiksh]

I have seen either Japanese or Chinese ad on Alexa while reviewing a site there.

[fredw]

Happens occasionally. I got an ad in French last week. I usually don't filter them, who knows what untapped audience they will appeal to?