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Google freeandopen campaign special touch

Today, I was a bit surprised to see this post in my Facebook feed:


The post is from the official Google Facebook page. Amazing right? Blah blah Vietnam ICT scene is becoming larger and larger blah blah. However, I quickly saw the Sponsored tag and figured they must have post multiple posts in different languages then use the sponsor thingy to promote post to specific audience. I came to the Facebook page but only saw 2 posts (one in Vietnamese and the other in English). Strange. There are much larger market and this sounds just wrong...

Turned out, they used another nice feature for Facebook page:

 
Page admin can guard their posts by user location and language. Pretty useful feature from Facebook and nice touch from Google!

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