Updated: 27th March 2009, 0325 hrs
Google to cut 200 jobs
Internet search giant Google says it plans to cut nearly 200 marketing and sales jobs from its international operations.
It says it looked at a number of different options, but ultimately concluded that it had to restructure itself to improve its effectiveness.
Google adds that its rapid growth resulted in job duplications and over-investment in some areas.
The cuts come a month after Google announced it was getting out of the broadcast radio advertising business, a move which would shed about 40 jobs.
Google also recently abandoned a two-year-old Print Ads programme that auctions off space on newspaper pages to bargain-seeking advertisers.
The company has been cutting costs in the face of a struggling economy that has slowed the online advertising king's money-making machine.
Google to cut 200 jobs
Internet search giant Google says it plans to cut nearly 200 marketing and sales jobs from its international operations.
It says it looked at a number of different options, but ultimately concluded that it had to restructure itself to improve its effectiveness.
Google adds that its rapid growth resulted in job duplications and over-investment in some areas.
The cuts come a month after Google announced it was getting out of the broadcast radio advertising business, a move which would shed about 40 jobs.
Google also recently abandoned a two-year-old Print Ads programme that auctions off space on newspaper pages to bargain-seeking advertisers.
The company has been cutting costs in the face of a struggling economy that has slowed the online advertising king's money-making machine.
