Google begins extensive recruitment in China, a move to fight back?

Google Inc is making a large-scale recruitment campaign in mainland China, the Chinese-language newspaper NBD reported on Friday.

According to the information posted in Google's Chinese blog, Google is recruiting employees covering 26 positions in seven departments, which are the departments of R&D, products, sales, operation, operation & IT, human resources and marketing.

The post in the blog also showed that most jobs would be in Shanghai and Beijing except marketing and operation & IT, which will be offered in Beijing only. The company did not indicate how many employees will be recruited in the post.