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Why am I getting ads in German?

Site is English

         

Buford

1:38 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Since this morning I've noticed that a large portion of my ads are showing up in German - correctly targeted as far as topic is concerned, but have "Goooooogle-Anzeigen" along the top. There is no German in the pages, and I'm on a US IP. What could be causing this?

cyberair

1:42 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I can confirm that it happened to me this morning when visiting a site with all spanish. I am in a spanish IP, however German ads were showing.

rhuseinh

1:48 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Same here since about 10 hours ago. Site mostly in English.

europeforvisitors

2:07 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)



Glitches happen. I see this sort of thing from time to time on my own site, but the problem never lasts long.

DavidDeprice

4:07 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I had (have) ads in French, Italian and German occasionally. they'll go away, because noboby will click them, and Google will automatically readjust.

wheelie34

6:38 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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on sunday i had either japanese or chinese, the ads by (jap/chine writing) and the advert in english, pointing to a .co.uk domain and when mouse overed the status bar had 3 to 5 square blocks before the url of the ad, the blocks are the type of thing if you see a carriage return in a piece of perl code, or when you dont have the character map on your pc to view a foreign language email, todat had the german ones with german advert text too

jchampliaud

7:06 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I have a site about France and every now and then I get ads in French.

diamondgrl

7:40 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Ich habe keine Ahnung!

xxxxxpp

10:27 pm on May 19, 2005 (gmt 0)



I have had spanish ads on my homepage now and then. But I don't think they do much harm, they didn't had any impact on earnings or CTR. perhaps because not everyone visiting the site sees those ads, some might see others.
So I think there's no need to panic.