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

2 pointsby avaleanvor 17 Jahren7 comments

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.

4 comments

Laurentvwvor 17 Jahren

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

andhappvor 17 Jahren

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

avaleanvor 17 Jahren

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

iceyvor 17 Jahren

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

spooneybargervor 17 Jahren

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...

spooneybargervor 17 Jahren

what? why 'should' that happen?

spooneybargervor 17 Jahren

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?