San Francisco: Internet giant, Google is on a hiring spree to hire 2,000 professionals around the globe. The number of job openings is up nearly six-fold compared to the previous year listing. The job opportunities come through as Google is explaoring variety of markets including Android smartphone software, online display advertising and Web-based productivity software. "We've been ramping up our hiring and the number of open jobs over the course of the last year," Google spokesman Jordan Newman said. Google's current job openings are primarily for engineers and sales staffers, with roughly half of them in the U.S. Some of the jobs were listed as temporary, but most appeared to be full-time positions. The job listings provide a window into the breadth of its vast operations across the globe, with openings for everything from a University Program Specialist in Senegal to a Building Ambassador at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The company, which has also faced increasing regulatory scrutiny in recent years, has more than 50 legal job openings around the globe. And it lists more than 50 open positions in China , including an Events Manager tasked with raising "awareness and usage" of Google products in the country, as well as a half-dozen recruiters. That expansion comes about a year after Google relocated its Web search engine to Hong Kong, following a very public spat with the Chinese government over its refusal to bow to Beijing's Web censorship requirements.