In further nod to economic recessions, Google on Thursday said it plans to cut another 200 jobs.

"Today we have informed Googlers that we plan to reduce the number of roles within our sales and marketing organizations by just under 200 globally," Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president in charge of global sales and business development, announced in a posting on the company's blog.

"Making changes of this kind is never easy -- and we recognize that the recession makes the timing even more difficult for the Googlers concerned," he wrote.

Kordestani said the company did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that it had to restructure its organizations in order to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time and has created some overlapping organizations which not only duplicate effort but also complicate the decision-making process, Kordestani noted.

"In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time," he said.

Earlier this year, Google decided to lay off about 100 recruiters worldwide. In January, the Internet search giant announced that it will shut down six products.

(Xinhua News Agency March 27, 2009)