Internet search giant Google plans to open an engineering research and development center in Bangalore, India, in March, a Google executive said in an interview published in The Wall Street Journal.
"We just want more really great engineers," Google vice president of engineering Mr Wayne Rosing told the WSJ. "It's clear there are a significant number of really talented computer scientists in India."
He said Google hopes to hire about 100 engineers for its Bangalore center, which would be the first of its type outside the United States for the company.
California-based Google, which has become synonymous with online searches, has 21 sales offices around the world. It employs engineers in its Mountain View headquarters and in Santa Monica, California, and in New York.
Mr Rosing said the decision to move into India was not based on cost-cutting or outsourcing reasons but rather on its employees' willingness to spend "significant time" there to identify and train new hires.