Search outfit Google is trimming the numbers of people it uses to hire others by 100 heads.

Since Google is not hiring anyone and has laid off most of its contractors it probably does not need to pay people to sit around and not find them staff.

Internet titan's vice president of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote in a blog posting on the California company's website that Google is still hiring, but at a reduced rate.

He said that given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring. Some of the staff who have been made redundant will be hired in other parts of the search empire, he said.