By Jo Best, 12 December 2003 15:50
NEWS Search giant Google has announced that it will be opening an engineering research and development facility in the offshorer's destination of choice, India.
The facility will be opened in the Indian city of Bangalore, creating around 100 engineers' jobs. It's Google's first installation outside of its native US, which has developers in several locations around America, including California and New York.
A Google exec told the Wall Street Journal the decision was taken to join the outsourcing trend or to cut costs, but because the country has high quality engineers and the company was happy to spend time in India recruiting and training them. "It's clear India is going to be a major player," he told the paper.
The decision follows a tour of the region which impressed Google bosses, who are expected to return to India early in the new year to dot the I's and cross the T's. The facility is expected to open in 2004.
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1. John Richards
I will stop supporting companies that have decided to go with this new trend of Overseas labor.
I think that cost is the bottom line. Let them move the entire Bussiness there.
They will not prosper like they do here in free world nations.
2. Karen Challinor
And yet more jobs slide to an area where the cost of living is a tenth of that in this one.
More power to the indian people!, they work hard for their money and they deserve every penny they get.
But whats going to happen to the 100 or so out of work IT engineers who are faced with a cost of living ten times higher, who can't be competitive and manage not to starve, who will no longer be able to afford access to the internet and hence won't be able to use google.