Google hiring like it's 1999

CNET News.com: "It may take a village to raise a child, as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to say. But it looks like it's going to take quite a bit more than that to fulfill the Google dream of one day indexing all the world's information for that little tyke.
The search giant is on a hiring tear. In its most recent quarter, which ended Sept. 30, Google added 800 employees, bringing its global work force to 4,989. That's more than triple the total from just two years ago.
'For a tech company to do that, we haven't seen that since the bubble,' said Umesh Ramakrishnan, vice chairman at executive search firm Christian & Timbers. "