iThink - 8:00 pm on Dec 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm from India. I paid $5000 last month (November) to google for adwords and a similar sum to Overture and then some to findwhat.com and goclick. Not even a single search engines out of the four blinked for a moment before taking my money and providing me the service (PPC ads). Also there was no thread here on webmasterworld that Indians are buying services from an American company. BTW this is the third thread in one day about google opening an office in India.

I bought an Intel CPU and mainboard last week and paid equivalent of $550 for that to an American company but again there was no hue and cry on any forum about that Indians are buying products made by Intel. Then why this BS about outsourcing? You (Americans) want (and mostly get) full access to markets in other countries but why start crying when you see the same companies hiring employees in those countries. Trade is a two way street, you sell somethings and you buy somethings.

Mattdwells, you appear to think that Americans who are being short changed by companies that operate R&D facilities out of India. In India we also have many people who think that Pepsi and Coke destroyed cold drink industry in our country in 1990s by selling their products at loss for many years in a row but I bet there are more people around me in India than compared to you in America who think it is the inevitable effects of globalization where survival of the fittest is the rule of the game. Google is multinational company which makes money from many countries around the world. They will hire people from where they can suitable people. You can continue complaining and start one more thread after this one provided you are allowed by moderators on the forum.