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Google opens sales centre in city
Hyderabad, Oct. 12:
Google, Inc, the world's largest Internet search engine company, launched its online sales and operations centre in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The centre will also focus on human resources functions, Google's co-founders and presidents, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, told reporters here.
They said Google will be expanding the Hyderabad centre, which will serve as a support centre for the company's worldwide advertising clients.
However, both Brin and Page declined to discuss either Google's investment in the Hyderabad centre or its research and development centre in Bangalore. The two men, who co-founded Google in 1998, will be in Bangalore on Wednesday for the inauguration of the R&D centre there.
"Google's AdWords adver tisers and AdSense publishers throughout the world will receive seamless online sales service and support in their local time from the team in Hyderabad," a Google release said. "Engineers hired into the Google Hyderabad engineering centre will mirror Google's other engineering offices, with the same scope of work, hiring standards and Google culture. They will be part of a worldwide effort to create the best search experience for Google users and can expect to tackle some of the most interesting challenges in computing today," it added.
Asked whether Google, which listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market in August with a $2.7 billion initial public offering, would be offering stock options to its employees in India, Brin said the company was planning compensation packages which would be similar to stock options. Brin indicated that Google planned to introduce search services in more Indian languages. The search engine currently offers services in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil. He said the Bangalore centre would be involved in product development.
Antoine Colaco, operations manager for the India Online Sales, Google had chosen Hyderabad because of the technology-literate Englishspeaking population, a competitive economic environment and good infrastructure.
