The search engine is to join many other high-tech companies in setting up a research centre in Bangalore
US-based Google, the world's top-ranked Internet search engine, said it will open its first international research and development centre in Bangalore, India in early 2004.
A Google spokesman said the move was not motivated by wage cost-savings, but was to take advantage of India's engineering and technical talent, Reuters reported. India, with its huge pool of highly educated, English-speaking IT workers, is a leading destination for outsourcing. The comparatively low wages make it highly attractive for high-technology companies and cheaper outsourcing contracts. However, there is growing resentment in the US and Europe over shifting with outsourcing contracts and international expansion.
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