{"id":181,"date":"2006-11-06T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-11-06T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T14:39:15","slug":"the-curse-of-advertising-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/the-curse-of-advertising-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The curse of advertising to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/googleads.tiff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/googleads.tiff\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the many problems that you face when you travel is the language barrier of course. I speak and understand 3 (french, english and italian), but now I&#8217;m back in Amsterdam, I&#8217;m being bombarded by Dutch again (or Holish as <a href=\"http:\/\/todbot.com\/blog\">Tod<\/a> puts it). That&#8221;s only fair in a way and just pushes me to actually learn it this time around.<\/p>\n<p>What I hate though is that when i google anything now, I get Dutch advertisement in Dutch! I have obviously never googled in Dutch, and so wouldn&#8217;t it be something that Google would be clever at figuring out? Location does not mean that I am a native&#8230; so if you want to,  give me .nl ads that are in English, that would be far more relevant, coz right now, there&#8217;s a whole marketing potential I&#8217;m simply ignoring and getting annoyed at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many problems that you face when you travel is the language barrier of course. I speak and understand 3 (french, english and italian), but now I&#8217;m back in Amsterdam, I&#8217;m being bombarded by Dutch again (or Holish as Tod puts it). That&#8221;s only fair in a way and just pushes me to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/the-curse-of-advertising-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The curse of advertising to me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-traveling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-2V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}