Google Video has begun offering new video search and store services in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Canada.

Until now, all of Google Video’s content offerings have come off the US Google Video site. And this meant that the US market strongly determined which videos were the most popular video clips.

The new eight national editions will now help mirror the likes of the countries each site serves. According to reports, launch content partners partnering with Google Video in this venture, are ITN, Wimbledon video rights holder IMG Media, the Cousteau Society, Talkback Thames, Buena Vista International, FC Barcelona and France’s National Audiovisual Archive.