Edited sentence: According to the Courant article, “Nerac doubled from 100 to 200 employees between 2000 and 2005 but has been badly hit by the success of Google and the current recession, Bouley said”.According to the Courant, Bouley said that he believes the company has hit bottom and is rebounding.Clearly other factors are involved in Nerac’s failure to thrive.Despite the economic conditions, there may be some reason for optimism.However, Nerac’s downsizing trend began well before the current recession.Layoffs also occurred in January and July, 2009.One factor, concerns the market disruptor, Google.The Journal Inquirer of Manchester (journalinquirer.com), CT, reported Nerac’s first mass layoff in a February 13, 2008, report.“Nerac, which started in 1966 as a collaboration between the University of Connecticut and NASA known as New England Research Application Center, now has 100 employees, including about 25 [in] Tolland, after sharp cutbacks in this recession”, according to the Hartford Courant in a June 30, 2009 article