Google launches YouTube local language sites

National sites for nine countries will offer translated home pages, search functions and, eventually, other country-specific features.

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[mattumanu]

What?

>>"It is not that we want to limit content by geography," she said.<<

But that's exactly what they've done. Each page has different videos featured in different countries. Youtube users are all over them at thier blog site...

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=ktewBXNbyTw

c|net would do well to follow up more on stories like this one. The community at youtube is up in arms over the change.