Google is planning to expand its staff by a third, with most of the new hirings in Europe, as the internet search company tries to avoid being seen as an aggressive American multinational¹.

该公司计划在欧洲招聘数千名工程师，组建一个研发团队，规模与其在美国的研发团队相当。

Google plans to hire several thousand engineers in Europe to create a research and development team in the region as big as the one it has in the US.

谷歌目前估计拥有7000名工程师，其中仅有500人在欧洲。不过，该公司已经表示，计划大幅提高这一数字。

Only 500 of an estimated 7,000 Google engineers are in Europe, but the company has signalled plans to expand the numbers dramatically.

谷歌新任欧洲工程主管纳尔逊?马托斯(Nelson Mattos)表示：“我的目标是，将EMEA（欧洲、中东和非洲）的工程团队扩大到北美团队的规模。这就是我加入谷歌的原因。”

“I aim to grow the EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa] engineering team as big as the one in North America. This is why I joined,” said Nelson Mattos, Google’s new head of engineering in Europe.