Posted on 10/14/2004 8:47:17 AM PDT by Walkin Man
Google Founders on Hiring Trip to India
Oct 13, 3:18 PM (ET)
By S. SRINIVASAN
BANGALORE, India (AP) - Google Inc. (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said Wednesday that some new features on the world's top search engine and other services will come from its research center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where they are on a hiring spree.
"One approach we are taking is that Bangalore is where we run a mirror exactly of what we have in the United States in terms of development," Brin told reporters in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka state.
Page and Brin said they were visiting India looking for "extraordinary talented entrepreneurial people who want to make a big change in the world."
Researchers in Bangalore will work with their counterparts in Google's U.S. offices to conceptualize new services and develop software, they said.
This includes developing search engines that will present results based on speech input or drawings, ones that will work in more languages than at present, personalizing search results to suit individual preferences, and new features for Google's new e-mail service, they said.
Google set up offices in the southern Indian cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad earlier this year. Brin said Google was in fact "too late" in tapping Indian talent.
"We would have preferred to do it sooner. But there are only so many things we can do at once. It is a fast growing business," he said.
Their comments came in Bangalore, their third stop in India, after New Delhi and Hyderabad earlier this week.
Google, based in Mountain View, California, runs an Internet business that revolves around its search engine - which covers 4.3 billion Web pages.
During their low-key visit, the two shopped in New Delhi's Connaught Place, rode in a three-wheel motorized rickshaw in Hyderabad and spent time like a "couple of sophomore backpackers doing India," the Times of India said.
They also called on Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Krishna Bharat, who created Google's news service, is now busy hiring in Bangalore. "We don't have a cap (on how many to hire). We will take in as many people as we can, if they meet our global standards," he said.
Page and Brin said they were visiting India looking for "extraordinary talented entrepreneurial people who want to make a big change in the world."
As long as they enjoy working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 10 grand a year, of course....
They're actually not much older than a couple of sophomore backpackers.
Ten grand a year is HUGE money in India. Why would a company pay someone $80K a year when they can get the same production for $10K?
I bet all those stockholders are really glad.
I know I would be.
Thats the same reason US companies use when they hire illegal aliens in place of Americans who need a living wage no doubt.
Lets see how much product these companies sell when we are all stocking shelves at Wal-Mart for minimum wage.
Well, one little detail you left out in that invalid analogy is that one is legal, the other is not.
I suppose my working for a paycheck is the equivalent of someone who robs banks. We're both trying to make money, right? It's all the same, right?
I don't get it . . . wouldn't folks like you simply insist that stockers at Wal-Mart get paid $70k per year?
Yeah its illegal all right..LOL!
Its illegal on paper, in reality its done out in the open everyday while the government turns a blind eye to it.
Still the same principle though.
I wonder which party they support....hmmm.
When all of the middle-class American jobs are exported to communist China or India or Mexico I would hope that the only remaining jobs would pay for an American middle-class lifestyle, yes.
What is the "free trade" plan?
Serfdom?
Communist slavery as in Red China??
A bridge over every Americans head and roadkill in every pot??
How is it the same principle? I don't get your logic.
Are you saying American companies should be barred from hiring in India because some companies in America are hiring illegal aliens from Mexico? You're going to have to show me the logic in that rationale.
They weren't lost to Red China or India then, were they?
Those jobs were lost to a superior US product, NOT slave labor!
BIG difference, no??
Of course I'm old-school and still love this country over all and wish the best for my fellow citizens.
At one time our government actually held the same beliefs, can you believe it!?
Oh the Republicans pay lip service to some social issues to whip up their base but on the whole they are all the same.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are hiring slave labor? Where did you see that?
Pardon me, but I think , although such taxes would be favourable to many, it could be ruled as an anti-trade policy by the WTO, or some other such organisation in which the US has stakes in. Would you then suggest that the US get out of these?
I may be playing the devil's advocate here, but I'd love to have an answer when someone asks me this very thing.
Here's what the answer is: If you place punitive taxes on U.S. companies that off-shore employees, then soon you will have no more U.S. companies.
Source: The Heritage Foundation [Free Republic]
- Forrester Research estimates 3.5 million outsourced jobs between 2000 and 2015. (Forrester Research)
- Over the past decade, 7.71 million jobs, on average, are lost every quarter as part of the normal flux of the economy. Forrester’s estimate would account for less than one percent of the jobs lost each quarter, on average. (Source: Department of Labor, Business Employment Dynamics Data Series; Forrester Research)
- Today, more than 5.4 million jobs in America are the result of insourcing—that is, they have been outsourced from abroad into the United States. (Source: Organization for International Investment)
- Annually, these insourced jobs account for $307 billion in wages and salaries. (Source: Organization for International Investment)
- Insourced jobs pay, on average, 19.1 percent more than the average job in the United States. (Source: Organization for International Investment)
- In the first quarter of 2004, just 4,633 workers were laid off as a result of offshore outsourcing due to mass layoffs—about 2 percent of total mass job layoffs. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Extended Mass Layoffs Associated With Domestic and Overseas Relocations”)
- In terms of the industries affected and positions potentially at risk, the use of outsourcing has changed little over the past five years. In other words, this is no rapidly accelerating trend. (Source: Government Accountability Office, “International Trade: Current Government Data Provide Limited Insight into Offshoring of Services”)
- The United States exports more business, technical, and professional services than it imports (and offshore outsourcing of service work is synonymous with importing those services). In 2003, the trade surplus for these services was $27.0 billion. (Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, “Survey of Current Business”)
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