Google hires goats.

With recession clouds kind of clearing the skies, Google has gone ahead and hired goats. Yes, that's right, Google has hired 200 goats....not to replace their existing employees but to replace their lawn movers.

Recently Real Estate Director Dan Hoffman blogged that from now on, Google will no longer use lawn mowers to keep the hills around the GooglePlex free of weeds and brush. Instead, it will unleash a herd of goats and let them munch to their hearts' content. "At our Mountain View headquarters, we have some fields that we need to mow occasionally to clear weeds and brush to reduce fire hazard. This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we've rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we're not "kidding"). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers".

The move is a part of the internet search giant’s go green and low-carbon approach. Interestingly google rival yahoo is not far behind even they use goats for grazing on yahoo properties. The rival web firm tweeted at Google saying “Once or twice a year, a large herd of goats can be seen just past our parking garage in Sunnyvale, grazing happily on the tall grasses of the hill beyond" says Yahoo in the caption. "We have a special fondness for the goats and are always sad to see them go - which, based on their voracity, happens much faster than you'd imagine."