Google wants a reflection of it in the East

Google Founders on Hiring Trip to India (Y! News)

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wants to tap Indian market by recruiting "extraordinary talented entrepreneurial people who want to make a big change in the world". They realized that they were too late to understand the potential of Indian market. Brin told "One approach we are taking is that Bangalore is where we run a mirror exactly of what we have in the United States in terms of development". Right now, they have two offices set up in India earlier this year - at Bangalore and Hyderabad. The founder of Google News, Krishna Bharat, is busy hiring potential candidates in Bangalore. But, I hope they maintain the same working culture that they have in Mountain View, CA in India too.
According to the founders, "Researchers in Bangalore will work with their counterparts in Google's U.S. offices to conceptualize new services and develop software. This includes developing search engines that will present results based on speech input or drawings, ones that will work in more languages than at present, personalizing search results to suit individual preferences, and new features for Google's new e-mail service".