Google Founders on Hiring Trip to India

myway news / AP ^ | Oct 13, 3:18 PM | S. SRINIVASAN

[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.

[1rudeboy]

[W]hat am I, the bureau of labor statistics?

Speaking of the BLS . . . [chuckle]

Real Earnings

Worker pay is a sign of job quality. The Labor Department’s measure of real hourly earnings is one of many pay statistics and includes all monetary compensation but not benefits. It only counts earnings for non-executive workers, unlike other measures.

• During the 1980 and 1990 recessions, real hourly earnings declined. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
• But even during and after the 2001 recession, real earnings have risen—by 2 percent since the recession began in March 2001. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  
• Real earnings are higher now than at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Source:The Heritage Foundation [Free Republic]

[Walkin Man]

No its from me, a former blue-collar worker that has been driven into a government job by free-traitors. One of many, no doubt.

Since when do you have to be a democrat to give a damn about your fellow citizens?

Where do you get your marching orders comrade? The communist dictator that runs Red China?

The commies will hang all of you sucker, free-trade, one-world, capitalists with your own rope someday.

And there will be no one left to save you...

[applpie]

Google is LIBERAL Democrats. Don't you remember all the hubbub about how they set up the search indices to insult the President.

[webstersII]

" Think about this for a second"

Ever heard of Intellectual Property and patent protections under the law?

India is a country where such luxuries don't exist. Even though you don't have brick and mortar ops over there you still have significant exposure.

[Arthalion]

Pardon me while I laugh. LOOK AT YOUR OWN DANG CHART!

Sure, we're not down to 1960's levels yet, but I have to point out that, right there on your own chart, median household income began to flatten out 1998 (even amid the biggest economic boom in American history) and has been flat or declining ever since. Coincidentally, the push for widescale outsourcing of the services industries began at the same time.

Even factoring out the recession, the flattening of income during such a major period of economic growth should have been ringing alarm bells (Clinton probably buried the numbers to keep himself looking good), and the continued dropping of median income following the end of the recession SHOULD have everyones attention today. Kerry has mentioned it exactly once and didn't propose any way to fix it (oh, wait, I forgot his mythical "plan"), and Bush has sidestepped the issue entirely.

The American middle class is being squeezed, and I believe that outsourcing is a driving factor.

[LowCountryJoe]

Funny, I never saw you two touch this thread:
Posted on 10/13/2004 5:54:48 AM PDT by Brilliant

You'd think that a high-performance economy, producing above-average growth and below-average inflation, would be a re-election ace. After all, during the 10 recovery quarters since the end of the 2001 recession, real GDP -- the most comprehensive measure of the economy -- has averaged 3.4% growth, in line with the average post-World War II expansion rate. Since the supply-side tax cuts were passed in Spring 2003, real economic growth has jumped to 4.8%, putting it at the head of the class of the past 20 years.

Somehow -- blame it on many media outlets -- this message is muted. Yet over the past year:

• Inflation-adjusted consumer spending is up 3.6%.

• Residential housing investment is up 13.2%.

• Capital-goods investment by businesses is up 13.9%.

• Spending on machine tools for heavy-industry manufacturing is up a whopping 54.2%.

• Exports and imports are up nearly 11%.

• After-tax corporate profits are up 19.5%.

• Industrial production is up 5.2%.

• High-tech production is up 23.7%.

• Productivity has reached an astonishing 4.6% rate.

• Household wealth is up 11.1%, hitting a record high of $45.9 trillion.

• The GDP deflator is up only 2.2%.

• The core consumer-spending deflator (excluding food and energy) is up only 1.4%.

• Interest rates are at 45-year lows, with short-term rates at less than 2%.

• 15-year mortgage rates are just above 5%.

• Home ownership stands at a record 69.2%.

Impressive? No, remarkable, considering the economy was up against an inherited recession, a busted tech bubble, corporate scandals, 9/11, two wars and an oil-price shock. The strong performance also sharply contrasts with ongoing weakness in Europe. John Kerry may love Europe, but GDP there is growing at less than 2%, with unemployment between 9% and 10%...

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

[FreedomCalls]

Anecdotes are hardly a good basis for saying Indian call centers should be illegal.

WTF??? Just where did I call for making Indian call centers illegal???? THAT is a DU trick. Just make up stuff. Claim I said something I did not. Then base your argument on the point you just fabricated.

I simply pointed out that firms doing business in India need to be careful and allow for the fact that they are operating in a non-US legal environment. I NEVER called for making them illegal. Just that if you have sensitive data make sure you take precautions to protect it. If you can't ensure its protection, consider keeping the call center in the U.S.

[oceanview]

and what is the filter applied to that data? are public school teachers in there? what is a "non executive"? and I note it excludes benefits - that's handy, since private corporations are passing health care costs to employees and shredding pensions and retiree medical are record rates. so those pass alongs effectively act as a reduction in wages. we just went through it where I work - we used to have drug coverage with a $15 co-pay, now its $80 that the employee pays for. where does that $65 for each presciption come from? out of my wages of course, so my wage just went down. Very nice that the BLS should exclude that from the chart.

[LowCountryJoe]

You're not radical enough in your approach. May I suggest using a successful tactic called hyperbole. It's a strategy where one uses fairly extreme rhetoric to enhance their talking points. You should try it; you're too mellow.

[1rudeboy]

Sure, we're not down to 1960's levels yet, but I have to point out that, right there on your own chart, median household income began to flatten out 1998 (even amid the biggest economic boom in American history) and has been flat or declining ever since. Coincidentally, the push for widescale outsourcing of the services industries began at the same time.

Let's see . . . what happened in 1998? [tapping fingers]
I got it! A recession! Shortly afterward, your typical protectionist (you can identify them because they never provide proof of their assertions) discovered that he can blame out-sourcing, even though it has been going-on for decades. Add a little bit of economic ignorance, mix well with anecdotal evidence and you have a nice collectivist stew. Simmer on low heat, and don't forget to call anyone who questions you a traitor.

[tdadams]

In just the last few years the size of the middle class has decreased, median income has gone down by over $1,500 a year, 4.3 million previously "middle class" Americans have fallen into the ranks of the poor as their incomes dropped below the $25k mark

Sorry, but this is flat wrong. You're badly misinformed. Here is the truth.

[oceanview]

the link says "kudlow" in it - no thanks.

[Arthalion]

Ummm...there was NO recession in 1998. '98 was one of the hottest years of the boom and it made many people, including myself, quite wealthy.

The economy didn't start turning until 1999, and we it didn't enter a recessionary stage until 2000. The flattening of median income began BEFORE the rest of the economy tanked.

[LowCountryJoe]

The market is anywhere that goods and services are bought and sold. The Constitution gives the government permission to impose tarrifs, but it doesn't require them.

I don't particularly want the government in the business of setting prices, even if it would benefit me at the moment.

Blaspheme!!! America first; freedom of capital mobility and individual contracts second.

[1rudeboy]

Fair enough. And we all know how dangerous it is when something begins to flatten.

[LowCountryJoe]

indeed, the globalists only wish they could open up africa. that would really given them a good source of low cost labor - people working under threat of starvation or at gunpoint.

Now you're on to something. Hmmm....

[oceanview]

the so-called productivity miracle is a direct result of offshoring - US corporations offshore jobs to lower wage countries, so of course their productivity numbers go way up, especially when they offshore low productivity work like customer service call centers, IT infrastructure maintenance, white collar back office accounting tasks, etc. and those wage savings go right to the bottom line also, profits are up for the same reason, as is executive compensation.

[1rudeboy]

Check it out. Our friend oceanview just ran for the tall grass again.

[1rudeboy]

No, no, no. Productivity measures output per U.S. worker.

[oceanview]

hardly. I just can't keep beating my head against the wall with you guys. I see this stuff in action everyday at work, you must see something else, so be it.