Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube urls?

Posted by avalean on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

As youtube grows, the instances of actual english words in youtube urls should grow (albeit very very very slowly)

Have you seen an instance of english words in a youtube url?

I don't know why but I found no research or mention of anything like this on the web.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by Laurentvw on Thursday August 20, 2009 @03:15PM (#775868)

Well, try it out. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site:y...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by andhapp on Thursday August 20, 2009 @04:01PM (#776013)

Can I ask what would this research prove? The beauty of randomness I guess....

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by avalean on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:23PM (#775728)

@spooneybarger You can read up on the Infinite monkey theorem.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by icey on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:38PM (#775770)

This isn't twitter, you can reply to him directly by clicking the small "reply" link under his comment.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by spooneybarger on Friday August 21, 2009 @10:56AM (#777637)

i don't see how that applies to youtube urls and the entire 'should'. youtube controls their url space, why is it a given that more english words 'should' appear in them? why not fewer?

perhaps there is some aspect of you tube urls i'm not familiar with...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by spooneybarger on Thursday August 20, 2009 @02:14PM (#775700)

what? why 'should' that happen?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you seen cases of english words in youtube u... by spooneybarger on Friday August 21, 2009 @10:54AM (#777634)

wait? i got voted down? why? i asked a serious question, i don't understand why it 'should' happen. the op seems to postulate its a given, why is it a given?

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