Yahoo! continues to recruit in India

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Despite a global layoff of around 2,000 employees as part of a restructuring plan, Yahoo!’s India arm will continue to recruit this fiscal.

Speaking to newsmen, the internet giant’s vice-president and India CEO Shouvick Mukherjee said India was one of the least affected by the shake-up.

Yahoo!’s R&D centre in Bengaluru, its biggest outside the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, US, employs 2,000 people.

“We will continue to recr-uit this year. We are always on the lookout for senior specialised, talent,” Mr Mukherjee said, sounding confident of the company’s new product launches in the last few months.

Yahoo! has seen better times what with co-founder Jerry Yang quiting in Janu-ary and the subsequent exodus of four board members in February, including chairman Roy Bostock.

Mr Mukherjee seemed to be bullish on Axis, a search plugin for the desktop wh-ich functions as a browser for mobile users.

Launched on Wednesday, the product seeks to put Yahoo! back in the driver’s seat as far as internet search goes, an area where it has lost considerable market share to industry leader Google and Microsoft’s Bing.

Mr Mukherjee said the past 6-8 months had seen user base surge by around a million users a month. It currently stands at 700 million users a month, he said.

The top official was also upbeat about other offerings, including the recently-launched video site that screens full-length movies and the site’s cricket app.