mottershead Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Can some of our friends who aren't in the United States tell me what the Google ads on the site look like. Are they from advertisers in your country. Are they in your language? How relevant to they seem to you? Or do they seem to be just the same ads that are being displayed to U.S.-based visitors, and not very relevant to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan_dzo Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Here in UK a mixture of US and local. Some adverts for B&H (whoever they are ;-) ) but the smaller ads seem uk orientated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_laban Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Had to log out to see them, but yes, most of the ads I see are from .co.uk sites for this UK resident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris cross Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 It's mixed, but most of them are in english and my language is suabian german ;-)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphanius Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Are they from advertisers in your country? <b>NO</b><br>Are they in your language? <b>NO</b><br>How relevant to they seem to you? I'm not interested in <b>MIAMI PHOTOS</b>, thanks (lol)</b><br>Or do they seem to be just the same ads that are being displayed to U.S.-based visitors, and not very relevant to you? <b>YES</b><br><br>Screen capture attached... (from Spain) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Working OK for me although, Yorkshire ought to be a country in it's own right ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai_griffin Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Brian, I'm in Italy. I logged out and browsed several threads. The Google ads are only occasionally specific for Italians (perhaps 10-15% of the time), and those ones are almost always in Italian, too. but another 30% of the time the ads are at least in the right continent (mostly UK or Austria of the ones I saw). The remainder - probably the majority - are U.S. ads. Mind you, most of those were quite relevant and had no local equivalent anyway - for example, I saw an ad for NeatImage. For Italy, I think this is a pretty normal result at present; web-advertising and web-shopping in general is a little behind the US in terms of uptake! <p> The Yahoo ads OTOH were always U.S. based and seemed rarely relevant.<p> Cheers, Kai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardosanchezf1 Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hi, from Mexico... Can some of our friends who aren't in the United States tell me what the Google ads on the site look like. ACTUALLY MY COMPUTER READS ADS BY YAHOO... Are they from advertisers in your country? NO, THEY ARE IN ENGLISH, OUT OF MY COUNTRY. ADS ARE NOT AT ALL RELEVANT: Borescope Inspection Tools, CCTV Lens Store, StreetPrices for Vhs Camcorder, Free wedding cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom t Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Here in Belgium (where the situation is complex because we got 3 national languages...) most are in in English and are relevant content-wise but irrelevant from a geography point of view. No belgian is going to hire a US based wedding photographer, for example. Some, I'd say about 30% are in dutch (my mothertongue) - about half of those are relevant. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_arran Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 <i>"Working OK for me although, Yorkshire ought to be a country in it's own right"</i> <br> <br> As an ex-patriot Yorkshireman, I cannot help but agree completely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_laban Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Ah Yorkshireland, isn�t that where they play kreekit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjfraser Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I'm in Asia. What I see are ads for websites: camerabooks.com, lomography.com, activeshopper.com, and so forth. Same general sort of content-keyed stuff I'd expect to see while using gmail, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garry edwards Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 As it happens I'm a Welshman who spent 40 years in London and am now an adopted tyke (Yorkshireman). I'm getting a complete mix of ads when I sign out and most are not relevant. But that's the choice of the individual Adwords advertisers, who choose which countries they want their ads to be displayed in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mário m. rodrigues Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Here in Portugal I never noticed any ads in portuguese or by portuguese companies. Wich is not to surprising considering that we are a small market going through a big crisis. On the other hand it surprises me that there arent some ads in portuguese given the fact that it is the sixth more spoken language in the world. I think the only add I saw that was not in english was in Italian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Brian You can see what ads are served by using a proxy server in another country. There are lists of such proxies published on the web. The only trouble is usually finding one that actually works, but it can be done. I've used that technique to look at what google serves on my site to overseas viewers. Generally they are pretty well targeted. I remember when I was accessing photo.net from the UK last year that quite a few of the ads were UK specific, especially vendor ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
working camera Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Australia Has Aus. content so I guess it works for here. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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