Google to create 700 jobs in Ireland
Published December 11th, 2005
Internet search giant Google will create 700 new jobs in Ireland, providing a post-budget boost for the government and a major coup for IDA Ireland.Google will shortly announce plans to expand its European headquarters in Dublin, where it already employs 500 people. The decision by the search engine, the world’s biggest internet firm, was described by one source this weekend as a “very significant expansion’‘.
Google’s Dublin office is the firm’s largest outside the US and has grown rapidly since it was first announced in 2003.
At the time, the firm said it would create 200 jobs over three years, but earlier this year it reserved extra office space in Dublin. Accounts filed by Google Ireland show it had turnover of €603million last year, up from €7.5 million in 2003.
Its parent firm, Google Ireland Holdings, spent $120.5 million (€102 million) on research and development. Google was founded in 1998 by university students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It floated on the Nasdaq last year and is now valued at $82.5 billion.
Since Google set up in Ireland, other internet firms including eBay, Yahoo! and Amazon have also set up operations here.
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