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"Irish" localised version of YouTube is actually in "English"

category international | sci-tech | opinion/analysis author Wednesday June 20, 2007 12:45author by R. Isible Report this post to the editors

Youtube Ireland

YouTube (now owned by Google) have launched what they say are "localized" versions for 9 countries: Brazil, Japan and seven EU countries including Ireland. The Irish version appears bizarrely to be localised in English.

Localisation[1] (known by the shorthand "L10n") is the process of providing interfaces to computer programs entirely in the language, character set and time/date formats of a particular country and culture. The Irish site[2] is localised in English.

The press release states that the purpose of this is to allows users in each country to share and create videos in their local language. If the recognition is that Ireland is a predominantly English-speaking country, then it seems pointless to create a redundant version separate from the www.youtube.co.uk site. Probably it's all just a gloss on the fact that Google have servers geographically distributed around the world to speed local access times, consuming huge amounts of power usually in relatively impoverished backwaters[3] that are glad of the jobs at any price.

Click the flag on the top-right to change to e.g. French or Japanese.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization

2. http://www.youtube.ie

3. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/23/google_penguins/

In a stunning display of hypocrisy all information for this article was gathered with the aid of Google, who own all of our souls and despite their bullshit corporate propaganda about "do no evil" probably turn over our search results to the torturers in the CIA when asked. Hopefully it won't escape your notice that this article is also fully localised.

Related Link: http://www.youtube.com/press_room_entry?entry=sbopYZ18uVQ

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Tailor Made for Ireland     Sean Crudden    Tue Jun 19, 2007 18:42 
   YouTube i nGaeilge     Couch Potato    Thu Jun 21, 2007 01:19 
   Plenty of vids     Séamus    Thu Jun 21, 2007 16:43 
   English is spoken in Ireland - NEWSFLASH     Dub    Thu Jun 21, 2007 18:42 
   What a Pompous Post     Setanta    Thu Jun 21, 2007 20:34 
   Silly discussion     Realist    Thu Jun 21, 2007 20:57 
   I've been closely examining that favourite vid of "couch potato"     bainne    Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:12 
   soul     ogi    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:10 
   Dream on Ogi     Dub    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:23 
 10   title     ogi    Fri Jun 29, 2007 17:28 
 11   I'd just like to remind people that 800,000 of our fellow Irish beings live in Lahndin     diogenes    Fri Jun 29, 2007 19:17 


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