• Information Week, Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:02 AM

Google move to New York City is a good thing, both for Google and New York City. Whye? Proximity to Madison Avenue, the four major TV networks, Time Warner, Viacom, News Corp, Hearst, The New York Times CO. Bloomberg, etc. In its big push to shore up more and better deals with traditional media companies, it will do Google good to be just a little bit closer.

This is also a good thing for New York's technology industry, which employs some 813,000 people, according to U.S. government labor statistics. Compare that to just 283,000 in San Francisco and San Jose combined. Indeed, the city is brimming with bright twenty and thirty-somethings that would love to work for Google. It's also the dwelling of tens of thousands of the world's top IT pros working for big banks like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, AIG and Citigroup. Not to mention the headquarters for many advertising agencies, technology providers and Web 2.0 startups.

As Google engineering director Craig Neville-Manning says, "The New York thing is very simple: There are a large number of incredibly skilled computer scientists in the area. That's why we're here."

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