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		Xixi on Oct 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings I live in Japan and "sofa" brings no advertisement, but "ソファー" brings three. So I guess it does indeed consider geographic location.

seanmcdirmid on Oct 19, 2013 [–]

Wow! That makes sense. Sure enough, searching for "沙发" brings up three ads for the PRC market. Here I was thinking that Google scaled back their advertisements significantly, they are just more precisely targetted :)

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