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According to PCWorld Google plans to expand YouTube into European markets.

Google Inc. is gathering some of its top executives in Paris next week for an international press conference and speculation is rife that announcements will include a local version of YouTube for European countries.

France 24, a French public TV channel, confirmed Friday that it has been in talks with Google, suggesting the search giant may be lining up local content for its video-sharing service. Google’s YouTube events calendar pegs Tuesday — the day of the press conference — for an unspecified “Paris launch.”

All I can say is Google really does a great job of expanding locally everywhere else so this is not a huge suprise to me although the timing is interesting as they are beta testing the new platform here in the States. So it will be interesting to see which platform they use the Old Youtube or the Youtube Beta.