Canada gets its own YouTube

[Thorin]

Google has announced that Canada has its own YouTube.  So...  Is this a useful split of the over-popular site?

Lets hope they have a special hockey-highlight-only search

[Lazybones]

Meh...

[Darren Dirt]

Meh...

Agreed. It's gonna be as annoying as having change back "google.CA" to .com :sigh:

The announcement comes as part of a worldwide expansion blitz for YouTube. In June, it launched nine country-specific sites, while Canada's is the fifth to be added in recent days. Already, most of YouTube's content comes from outside the United States, and more than seven hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute.

Any site that amasses as much content as YouTube eventually needs to break itself up to cater to specific demographics to remain relevant and maintain user interest, said Info-Tech Research Group analyst George Goodall.

"In the history of the Web, pretty much any content play inevitably involves some sort of regionalization aspect to it," he said.

Ms. Ariswala said that while there are no plans now to automatically route Canadian users to the YouTube Canada site when they try to access the international youtube.com address, the company hasn't ruled out that eventuality.

YTC eh?

blog.

[Shayne]

I bet its some way of Google avoiding different laws in different countries.  Sorta like, if Canadians go to the .com one instead of the .ca one how is that our fault?  Purely speculation.