Why Does Google Think I’m Japanese?

This has been going on for a while. Maybe they’ve heard of my fascination with Asian women and decided to do me one better. Nah. Probably not.

Oh Google, master of the universe, why do you puzzle me so? I am but a middle-aged boy from Connecticut who speaks English and English only. Yet my Gmail account, often as not, displays ads in Japanese.

“Ads are selected for relevance and served by Google computers using the same contextual advertising technology that powers our AdSense program. This technology enables Google to target dynamically changing content such as email or daily news stories.”

google-thinks-I'm-Japanese.jpgGotcha–but I still don’t speak Japanese.

This has been going on for a while. Maybe they’ve heard of my fascination with Asian women and decided to do me one better. Nah. Probably not.

If you can figure out why Google thinks I’m turning Japanese, I’m really turning Jpaanese, they really think so, would you let me know?

7 thoughts on “Why Does Google Think I’m Japanese?”

  1. I’ve also noticed that sometimes the Firefox Tab in the taskbar at the bottom of the page is also in Japanese. This happens even if I’m not in gmail.

  2. Here’s another strange one… I continue to get Arabic and Middle Eastern based ads on Facebook and some other sites that have Google ads since my trip to Dubai. I understood when I was over there that the ads were a result of my ISP location but I still find it funny that it serves them up even though I am firmly planted in Connecticut. Perhaps there are some type of cookies that relate location, etc. back to Google? Who knows. -Mike

  3. My google web search, gmail, blog and everything that is related to google continues to display ads and info in Japanese when I don’t read or understand that language. I have done and re-done the settings. But it appears as if google is hell bent upon teaching me Japanese.

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