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Google Purchases Its First Home
noparkingzone writes "ZDnet is reporting that Google has purchased the garage that the company first called home for an undisclosed sum. The Menlo Park structure was owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends. Leased to Serge and Brin by Susan Wojcicki for around $1,700 per month in 1998, the original Googleplex is intended to be preserved as part of the company's living history."
It's a sad state of affairs in the real estate market today if that little house is all Larry & Serge can afford with their jobs.
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That must have been one sweet slab...
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Only there would you pay 1700/month to live in a garage!
"owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends"
Must be nice to have billions and multiple girlfriends.
the original Googleplex is intended to be preserved as part of the companies living history.
'So often you 'see the here come's an S u'sage of apo'strophe's, but heres one ca'se where it actually belong's and wa's not u'sed.
Grumble grumble grammar nazi blah blah.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
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8 years of Google might seem like a long time, but remember that development of Duke Nukem Forever was started before Google even existed, so it's not that long.
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Isn't it Sergey Brin and Larry Paige?
Not to be outdone, Microsoft has purchased the back seat of the '62 Camaro where Bill Gates' mother was knocked up by satan.
"We plan to preserve the property as a part of our living legacy", says Google spokesman Jon Murchinson.
I have a feeling the house is about to get a makeover...
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I think you may have just killed a tree. You were hugging it way too hard.
companies???? do you mean company's ???? between this and all of the thens where there should be thans, what the hell is happening to gramar in American English?????
If only you had asked, "What the hell is happening to spelling and capitalization in American English?" Then your situational irony would be complete.
That's because nobody wants to live in Ohio.
This is the kind of crap that I'd expect to see on Slashdot, 3 days after it was on Digg.
There, fixed that for you.
I don't know where this "out here" y'all are referring to is, but I simultaneously want to and don't want to move there! It sure sounds expensive and cheap!