Filed under: Google (GOOG), Employees

I guess things are tough all over — even Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is laying off people.

For the first time, the tech darling of the internet will be cutting a large number of jobs, with the reductions coming from the company’s new DoubleClick workforce. Google completed its purchase DoubleClick on March 11, and it was widely expected that the Goog would fire some of DoubleClick’s 1,500 employees. According to The New York Times, though, the 300 number is larger than expected.

Google is also planning on selling Performics Search Marketing, a unit of DoubleClick. Performics is a search engine marketing company that gets paid to place ads on search engines. This could interfere, or appear to interfere, with Google’s objectivity when ranking — and charging for — page popularity. So bye bye Performics!

Google has about 17,000 employees worldwide, having added over 6,000 in 2007. CEO Eric Schmidt has promised to slow the pace of hiring in the coming months.

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