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Google Purchases Its First Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lets-all-crash-on-the-couch dept.

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."

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  1. Still waiting for the Real Estate Bubble to Pop by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. $1700 rent for a Garage! by Fysiks+Wurks · · Score: 5, Funny

    That must have been one sweet slab...

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  3. California by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only there would you pay 1700/month to live in a garage!

  4. It's good to be a billionaire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends"

    Must be nice to have billions and multiple girlfriends.

  5. Sometimes there SHOULD be an apostrophe by mooingyak · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  6. Preserved? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    the original Googleplex is intended to be preserved as part of the companies living history.
    So is this going to be a Graceland type of deal? How soon can we make pilgrimages to the historic garage, walk through the sacred Jungle Room, gaze upon Serge and Brin's actual preserved empty chip packets, discarded pizza boxes, broken ethernet cards, and sequinned jumpsuits? Will there be velvet paintings at the gift shop?
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    1. Re:Preserved? by snark23 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes. And when Page and Brin die, their embalmbed bodies will be displayed in glass cases with softly blinking LED lights. Pilgrims to the garage will leave offerings of Mountain Dew.

  7. To put things in perspective... by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  8. Serge and Brin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't it Sergey Brin and Larry Paige?

  9. Re:Heh by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've wanted to do the same to some of the places I've worked in. Especially since that incident involving my stapler...

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  10. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to be outdone, Microsoft has purchased the back seat of the '62 Camaro where Bill Gates' mother was knocked up by satan.

  11. Re:Grammar Nazi by jcorno · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  12. That's because by mapmaker · · Score: 5, Funny
    For that price in Ohio I could get a *huge* garage (w/ attached house), and still have money left over

    That's because nobody wants to live in Ohio.

  13. Re:That's cool and all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.