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I don’t quite get the relevance of being able to geographically pinpoint videos on YouTube. I mean, I guess if Google wants to be able to hand over that info too…

Or is it a good way to personally hook up with friends, meet new people, and stalk celebs? I guess there could be some compatibility in the area of advertising, but for run of the mill vids, I don’t see the point.

What’s the criteria? Do you tag according to where the film was actually taken, where the poster’s location is, or what? And do we care?

Apparently so; the big story on Google this week is all about the New soon to be released feature that will let you search for videos by geolocation.

I guess I can see the application narrowing search time by weeding out non specific or misleading results, but seriously - how many people use YouTube for serious web search?

Again, apparently enough that Google felt it wise to integrate their geolocation system on Google Earth and allowing posters to geotag their vids. And Again, I ask how accurate can we assume that will be?

I guess we’ll just have to wait till next year when the usage results come out.