Google unavailable

November 23rd, 2005 |

I have read it on Rodrigo’s website but didn’t actually believe it. Until I saw it with my own eyes:

Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn’t available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.

Come on.. Google video unavailable in my country? In FRANCE? What kind of stupid bug is that? Are they cenzoring France or are they plainly incompetent? I know, delivering video streams may take some resources, but other sites do it well enough (youtube, for instance).

Really, I’ve been outraged by geographical discrimination before, when I first saw that Amazon didn’t deliver books to Romania, but at least that was their (stupid, hopefully momentary) decision based on(obsolete) security reasons(fear of carding fraud). But… hello… coming from GOOGLE? And refering to France?

Hmm… bad point for you, Google! Bad, bad, Google!