As of September 30th, Google had 23,331 fulltime employees, and thats an impressive number, considering the company had just 21,805 fulltime workers three months earlier.

But now the numbers set to jump again, as Google is looking to hire an additional 2,000 or so new employees.Reuters thought to tally the number of positions listed on the search giants jobs site yesterday, and Alexei Oreskovic reported afterward, The worlds largest Internet search engine, whose finance chief told investors in September that the Internet industry was waging a war for talent, has job openings listed for 2,076 positions . . .