Google grows in Latin America

November 26, 2008 By Liza Gross

John Farrell, 38, thinks of his job at Google as "a fantastic journey." It is pretty hard to argue the point if, like Farrell, your title is country director, Google Mexico, and director of business development for Google in Latin America at a time when the region represents the fastest-growing segment in revenues and number of searches for the Internet company, based in Mountain View, Calif.

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