Google hires Meir Brand to head Google office in Israel

Google hires Meir Brand to head Google office in Israel

The story of another Microsoft employee going to Google and starting work on a big project! Search Engine giant Google has just appointed former Microsoft Corp. executive Meir Brand to open an office in Israel with plans to tap online advertising spending in the country. Meir would be the country manager of Google Israel and will be based in Tel Aviv.

Google released this information in a press statement released on email. The company is more in news nowadays regarding their high profile hiring of people who used to or are working with the world’s largest software company and their archrivals Microsoft. In fact, they are also entangled in a lawsuit on another hiring of former Microsoft China executive Kai-Fu Lee.

Both the companies are big challengers in the web search market and with Google releasing more products targeting Microsoft’s domain, the competition is expected to become more interesting with time. Google is seriously expanding into other countries as the sales from non-US nations accounted for almost 39 percent of Google’s revenue in the second quarter, up from 31 percent a year earlier.

They are expanding massively in china, which is one of the fastest growing internet communities on the web. Their new hiring Brand served at Microsoft as their small business-marketing manager at Microsoft Israel.