TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: My High Hopes About Google Ads

Re: My High Hopes About Google Ads

Dave Garland (dave.garland@wizinfo.com)
Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:15:36 -0600

It was a dark and stormy night when TELECOM Digest Editor
<ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> When I use another redirection alias, through 'us.tc' or 'net.tc'
> still other ads show up in German or French.

I don't know the answer to any of your other questions. But
smartdots.com (the German registrar who is giving away those .tc
subdomains) has a header line in their redirected pages that says the
language is German. (You'll see it if you view the page source with
your browser.) Chances are, Google's robot is using that header to
determine the language of the ad.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I did not realize '.tc' was assigned
to Germany. For some reason, I thought that '.de' was their country
code. Also, I did not think that Google paid any attention to the
META or HEAD lines on web pages; just the contents of the page. PAT]

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