Comment by alapshah

That is totally true, but a very large percentage of those 1 million are people who simply have no chance of getting the job. Google is seen as a hot company and place to work for so it attracts a lot of resumes, much more than microsoft ever was...

And they make it pretty darned easy to apply. There are some other interesting numbers in this infographic - salaries and such: http://img.gtricks.com/2011/10/job-in-google.png