Most businesses have a formal and structured environment; at Google, jeans are the norm, and dogs are allowed at work.  But in a move that goes far beyond normal business practices – think pygmy marmosets instead of Great Danes – the search engine company has announced a development involving a tribe of Brazilian Indians.

From our perspective, it’s going international.  From theirs, it’s becoming local.  But either way you look at it, YouTube is launching targeted sites for Ireland, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Japan, Brazil, and France.

In September of 2006, the elected government of Thailand was overthrown.  In April of 2007, YouTube was shown the door.  That’s right – YouTube has (yet again) been banned in an entire country.

YouTube appears to be out of options in Brazil.

A court in Brazil has just ordered the shut down of Google’s YouTube for failing to remove a celebrity sex video from the site.

A Brazilian federal court wants Google to hand over data about users of the Brazilian Orkut service, but Google will respond with a brief that refuses the request.

Google is giving in to an order to share data on some of its Orkut users. The company put up a good fight, but folded as the Brazilian government threatened it with fines and penalties.

When pressuring a major corporation to comply with a major government mandate, it’s a good idea to commence communications with said company’s legal department. The sales team is generally clueless about these matters. The Brazilian government couldn’t care less who they talk to at Google, but Google thinks they should try.

The globalization of Google looks set to continue well into the 21st century with the news of them eyeing another geographic location to open another research and development facility.

Last Friday evening, MSN took their search toolbar to the International community by releasing an updated version, which increases the amount of language support given to foreign countries.

Petrobras has agreed to advise Iraqi oil interests on bolstering oil yields that have fallen 47 percent.

The country wants to become an outsourcing superstar like India, but they have a long way to go.