Leading internet search engine Google said on Tuesday it was planning a big expansion of its India operations which are run from the southern cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore.
”We are committed to substantial growth in terms of both manpower and infrastructure at both these offices,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of the search engine, told reporters at a press conference.
He said the expansions are scheduled to take place by the end of the year but refused to give details on numbers or figures.
Googles Bangalore office will focus on research and development while the Hyderabad centre will look after online sales and operations and human resource functions, Brin added.
”Google chose Hyderabad due to its large, well-educated, technology-literate, English speaking population, competitive economic environment and sound infrastructure,” said Brin’s partner Larry Page.
Given the opposition to outsourcing in the United States, the two insisted that all its new employees in India will be taken on as fully fledged Google employees.
”Engineers hired at the centres here will mirror Googles other engineering offices, with the same scope of work, hiring standards and unique Google culture,” Brin said.
He said that after the US and Europe, Google saw India as its next destination for overall expansions.
Brin said Google plans to make its services available in more than a 100 different languages including a number of regional Indian languages.
Google’s search engine is the world’s most used, running 200-million searches a day. – Sapa-AFP