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October 13, 2004
Google hiring in Bangalore and Hyderabad India
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are visiting India and want to hire online sales and support personnel and engineers for its new R&D centers in India.
They did not give details about the number of people they plan to hire in India.
They were reported to have said that Google is committed to grow faster in India where it is seeing a huge potential. Page also was reported to have said that India will turn into one Google's "larger destinations".
They were reported to have said that they will hire depending on finding the right talent.
Google has two development centers in India, in Bangalore and Hyderabad, focusing on research and development for its widely popular search engine.
The Bangalore center will focus on research for its search tool and products like Gmail, while the Hyderabad facility will house the online sales, human resource and services functions.
The activities in Google's Hyderabad center is significant as it's a first step to it providing localized services like the Google Local service that it launched in beta recently. The service allows users to search for local shops and addresses that have their presence on the web.
On a lighter note, the billionaires answered to a question during the select media briefing that they would love to take the autorickshaw back home to California because of its maneuverability.
Source: TechTree
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