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.
I know it might be an article-of-faith for you, but at minimum, shouldn't there be evidence that the middle class is being destroyed?
then you should be against the H1B visa program - the government has gotten into the business of setting the price of labor lower with that program. do you favor it?
or is what you really mean to say is that you don't favor the government "setting prices" so to speak - higher, only lower.
Anecdotes are hardly a good basis for saying Indian call centers should be illegal. That might sell on DU, but not here.
There are huge ramifications for moving your operations into a place where U.S. laws do not apply and the U.S. legal system does not operate.
And if American companies see that crime and corruption is a cost of doing business that's too high to justify outsourcing, then India will have shot themselves in the foot. Something tells me India isn't likely to do that.
"Umm . . . something about the market being the entire world?"
My reference was to Jefferson.
Before you ask a question like that you should at least find out what he thought about free trade. (Hint: he didn't think that the market was the entire world).
Also, the post was about the Barbary Pirates, not the size of the market.
I'm not fond of government meddling in the marketplace, period. The only hypothetical exception I can think of would be some emergency involving national defense.
Jefferson went to war with the Barbary pirates to open sea-lanes through the Med, your sophistry notwithstanding.
the PRIVATE SECTOR middle class. read the whole phrase.
government workers, public school teachers, health care workers, people who work in industries like law which are "sheltered" by government from global effects, people who work for defense contractors, homeland security - they are all in the middle class too, and they are doing OK. but they aren't the PRIVATE SECTOR part of the middle class.
Is that a direct quote from JohnKerry.com or did you come up with that on your own?
"Jefferson went to war with the Barbary pirates to open sea-lanes through the Med, your sophistry notwithstanding."
You compare apples and oranges.
Yes, he opened sea lanes. And guess what happened to the goods that flowed through those after the pirates were defeated? Yep, they got tariffs laid on them when they came into the US.
Jefferson was proud of the fact that he had been instrumental in eliminating all federal taxes before he left office. He did so by creating tariffs to bring in revenue.
Well, if cannot come-up with the evidence that private sector real wages are declining, can you?
Google Founders on Hiring Trip to India
The "founder" is a verb or a noun. Reads differently depending.
The numbers from our own Census Bureau support it. 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, and the ranks of the middle class continue to decline even in quarters where the GDP is increasing.
Look it up yourself. The numbers are out there on the census bureau website, factcheck.org, and plenty of other places on the Internet. We can either address this issue, or all be pollyannas. If you want to ignore the issue and cling to your "everything is going to be OK" beliefs, that's fine. But I take this very seriously, and I will not stand by and watch the destruction of the land that my family first helped settle more than 240 years ago just so a few free traitors can increase their profit margins. America first means AMERICANS first. Nobody should be in ANY position of governance in this nation if they disagree with that mantra.
Check it out. I got the "look it up yourself" defense. Again!
Think about this for a second... when you have physical plants and equipment in a foreign country, it's vulnerable to this kind of confiscation. How is Google vulnerable in this way and what is India going to "nationalize" that belongs to Google?
This analogy is nonsense.
what am I, the bureau of labor statistics? you have to have a careful examination of the wage structure, removing government and government related employment. and you must also remove the wage concentration effect of what is happening at places that do offshoring - Oracle sends 1000 engineers to India, and 50 executives pick up 7 figure bonuses as a result - those 50 execs must be excluded to get a clear picture of what is really going on.
No, you're the guy who made an assertion and then punked out when called to supply proof.
are you kidding me? the source code for the website. its actually much easier to steal that, then it is to nationalize an oil terminal.
its not possible to get the data from "official" sources - when they are willing to take my algorithm and make a run across the wage data, let me know.
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