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.
Asking more than your market value seems to be a democrat specialty.
Look, I lost my IT job to 911. I have to scramble around picking up hourly work. It sucks. But the alternative seems to be having the government tell people where they are allowed to spend their money. I think they'd like that over at DU.
The horror! Thank the Lord we have folks like you who are here to tell the rest of us how much we should pay for computer programmers.
the elites want a two tiered socio-economic structure here - the wealthy and well connected with jobs in protected industries with high incomes, middle class people who are mostly government employees, and low paid service jobs and government handouts for everytone else.
what most of the "free trade" people do not understand - is that that socio-economic structure is a formula for a permanent Democratic majority in the US. The private sector middle class is the life blood of the Republican party; drive those people down the wage scale, or into government jobs or jobs funded by government spending (health care) - and they will vote Dem.
. . . and believe me, you find plenty of freepers who are perfectly willing to look the other way at a [controlled economy] if it means that their [wages are $2 higher] because the restaurant has a [Five Year Plan].
they don't understand that. I argue with them on every thread. they don't understand the difference between a job lost due to competition, automation, a business gone bad, etc - and one not "lost", but sent offshore where someone else holds it.
Uh, oh. "make a big change in the world."
Time to get ready to short this pig.
the service industry, government, health care, education - its pretty clear where those jobs have gone to. the free traders believe we can survive on those jobs and their respective wages alone - and lose manufacturing, and now the technology and white collar information related industries.
With no health care, of course! I love dee outsourcing.
"Asking more than your market value seems to be a democrat specialty. "
What's the market? The entire world?
The Founding Fathers didn't think so.
The only original taxes allowed (and encouraged) were Tarriffs. Free trade was envisioned to have limits. Sure, maybe you can put reasonable tarriffs on it and it still makes economic sense to get it done offshore but some people on FR seem to see free trade as completely open, no tarriffs allowed.
That's not how the Founding Fathers envisioned it.
You speak of Trotskyites, yet your reply could've been written by Trotsky himself.
So Jefferson going to war against the Barbary pirates never happened?
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.
Hmmm. . . . am I missing something here?
What did Jefferson not wanting to pay tribute to the Barbary pirates have to do with Tarriffs?
"The Constitution gives the government permission to impose tarrifs, but it doesn't require them. "
As I said, they were encouraged. There were many discussions about tarriffs and the good/bad points of them. One reason in favor of them was to encourage trading with people here at home as opposed to abroad.
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.
Umm . . . something about the market being the entire world?
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