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Found this strange...
« on: January 27, 2011, 01:04:49 pm »
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Why are so many of the google ads not in english on this site?

eg.

Just wondering why
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 01:13:09 pm »
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I guess Portugese google people decided that the businesses thought that it would be a good advertising investment to advertise in a VCE forum based in Australia. hmm...
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 03:45:15 pm »
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lols, never come across these ads i've got to say...........
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 09:55:39 pm »
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Were you in the LOTE forum?
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2011, 11:49:44 pm »
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Quote from: Cianyx on January 27, 2011, 09:55:39 pm
Were you in the LOTE forum?

oooooo good point!
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2011, 01:57:13 pm »
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Quote from: Cianyx on January 27, 2011, 09:55:39 pm
Were you in the LOTE forum?

No, I was in Methods CAS actually. That's why I thought it was a bit out-of-place
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 04:04:08 pm »
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ooo I just got an ad for Beautiful Russian Ladies
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2011, 04:06:36 pm »
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Quote from: kyzoo on February 05, 2011, 04:04:08 pm
ooo I just got an ad for Beautiful Russian Ladies
Just now?! Tad late :P
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2011, 04:37:25 pm »
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I want a girl from ukraine! damn these ads!
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2011, 07:06:09 pm »
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Off the orginal context of the topic, but still fits into the title:

Monthly Summary    New Topics   New Posts    New Members   Most Online      Page views
January 2011              723             13321          0                   180              924251

NO NEW MEMBERS IN JAN '11 :o  Thats weird (or the stats just wrong?)
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2011, 07:07:19 pm »
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I think it is based on your browsing interests?

I get buying runescape gold LOL
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2011, 07:08:17 pm »
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Quote from: pi on February 18, 2011, 07:06:09 pm
Off the orginal context of the topic, but still fits into the title:

Monthly Summary    New Topics   New Posts    New Members   Most Online      Page views
January 2011              723             13321          0                   180              924251

NO NEW MEMBERS IN JAN '11 :o  Thats weird (or the stats just wrong?)

December, January and i think around 2 days of February are wrong, its been fixed.

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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2011, 07:09:41 pm »
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Quote from: taiga on February 18, 2011, 07:07:19 pm
I think it is based on your browsing interests?

I get buying runescape gold LOL

The only foreign language site I have been on was google translate when I was doing a German assignment. And that was nearly 2 years ago.

Quote from: TrueLight on February 18, 2011, 07:08:17 pm
December, January and part of February are wrong, its now fixed.
Thought so
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2011, 11:54:02 am »
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I think it goes based of what you browse such as cookies.
So if you look up a lot of computer related things you will get ads from Dell and co whereas if you look up a lot of music related stuff you might get ads from guitar companies like Gibson and ESP.
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Re: Found this strange...
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2011, 02:09:36 pm »
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I set my cookies to clear when i exit firefox haha.

I just get dating ads and ads for foxtel
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