Google has announced 200 job cuts.

Internet giant Google has announced that it is to cut 200 jobs with the corporation’s marketing and sales departments.

The job cuts are the second set of redundancies Google has made this year.

Google blamed the cuts on the company’s fast growth which it claims has caused some overlapping in various departments. In a statement on the company’s official blog, Google said: “When companies grow that quickly it’s almost impossible to get everything right and we certainly didn’t.”

The firm hopes the job losses will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the business.

Omid Kordestani, Senior VP of Global Sales and Business Development for Google, said: “Making changes of this kind is never easy and we recognise that the recession makes the timing even more difficult for the Googlers concerned.

“We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organisations.”

With more than 20,000 employees at Google, the cuts represent less than 1% of total staff. Earlier this year, Google laid off 100 members of staff in its recruitment department.

Google said that the staff being made redundant would be given the opportunity to find other jobs within the firm or would receive severance packages if they had to leave the company.