In Michigan, Google finds talent and growth

Google’s new Michigan office currently employs 50 people. But the Internet search engine made $1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2006 alone. And the company, which was recently named Best Place to Work by Fortune Magazine, aims to eventually employ 1,000 people in the Great Lakes State.

“A lot of what we expected in terms of our decision to come here are really bearing out,” Grady Burnett, head of Google’s Ann Arbor operation, told a group of media professionals while speaking recently in Grand Rapids. “We’re seeing tremendous growth. We’re seeing a lot of great, talented people and we’ve received an amazingly warm reception, just coming to this state.”

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Source: The Grand Rapids Press