WSJ 2/10/05 Googleスピードダウン？ 理由は採用に難あり？！
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110799402790350674,00.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news
あいかわらずＷＳＪのサブスクライバー登録してないのであきらめていたのですが、梅田氏の抜粋だけでも読んで見ましょう。
Google Inc. executives said they can't expand as rapidly as they would like because they can't find enough qualified employees or deploy new computers fast enough.
At the company's first analyst meeting since its August initial public offering, the executives said they are aggressively adding products and staff, but are limited by their own recruitment standards and ability to expand Google's technical infrastructure
もっと優秀な人材がほしい。人材が足りないがためにＧｏｏｇｌｅは思うように発展できていないのだ。
"Can we hire the quality and quantity of people we want to? No," said co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking before several hundred analysts at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. "We're underinvesting in our business because of the limitations of hiring." Google said it has more than 3,000 employees, up from 2,292 in June. Mr. Brin said Google was "probably 10% to 20% below" where it wanted to be in terms of the level of its technical infrastructure.
Ｂｒｉｎ氏曰く「我々は人材不足のために思うようにビジネスにとりくめていない」 現在3000人ほどの社員がいるが１０〜２０％ぐらい足りないという。
Mr. Schmidt said Google was seeking to reach advertisers outside the midsize companies it currently serves best. "We still, as a company, do not have all of the products and services needed to serve all of the largest advertisers or the tiniest of advertisers," he said. Google in the fourth quarter had 227 advertisers that were on the Fortune 1000 list of the largest companies, compared with 156 a year earlier. Highlighting one potential change, co-founder Larry Page said Google over time will give advertisers "more choice over where and how they show their ads."
Ｓｃｈｍｉｄｔ氏が言うには、Ｇｏｏｇｌｅは中規模の会社からのビジネスチャンスを求めている。今大会社についてはうまくいっているＦｏｒｔｕｎｅ１０００社のＬｉｓｔｉｎｇの中から２２７社がＧｏｏｇｌｅに広告をうっている。 （前の記事で同氏はＬｏｎｇ Ｔａｉｌについて言及してましたよね、他の記事でもそういったものを散見します）
