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<p>Google announced it was slashing 100 full-time posts for the first time in its history.</p>
<p>The company said it would be cutting recruitment staff and shutting three engineering offices in a bid to reduce costs in a tough economic climate.</p>
<p>'Given the state of the economy, we recognised that we needed fewer people focused on hiring,' Google's vice president of people operations Laszlo Bock said in the company's official blog. </p>
<p>Reduction in staffing at Google suggests even the seemingly unstoppable internet giant is not immune to the downturn.</p>
<p>At the time of its launch on the New York stock exchange in 2004, it had just 3,000 staff. It currently employs around 20,000.</p>
<p>The company is also cutting back on services including social network Dodgeball, messaging site Jaiku and bookmarking service Notebook.</p>
<p>Three offices, in Austin, Trondheim and Lulea are being closed with 70 workers encouraged to move to other sites.</p></div></div>

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