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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...
P226
Only there would you pay 1700/month to live in a garage!
$1,700 month to rent a garage? That much a month would cover the entire house (and utilities) in this part of the USA.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
... but is it really front page news?
:)
I mean, I congratulate the couple on their new house, but come on...
"The need to build the internet comes from something inside us, something programmed... something we can't resist."
OK, in the past few weeks we've learned that Google's founders got into a catfight over a luxury airplane, let their employees do whatever the fuck they want during work hours (Wizards of the Coast style?) and are concentrating on cementing their "early" history. I'm not a shareholder, but if I was, I'd clicking the "Sell" button as fast and often as I could...
"owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends"
Must be nice to have billions and multiple girlfriends.
$1700 seems steep, even for today's standards.
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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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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?
I love Google as much as anyone else, but talk about utterly self-indulgent. Yes, they are cool, but they are no HP, not yet anyway. Once they get to 20 years old and contributed as much as HP has over the decades, THEN start worrying about keeping track of your legacy. Right now, all they are is a great search engine, great mail service, and bunch of free (but cool) software like Picasa. They are cool and convenient, but I would hardly describe Google's contributions as important or essential... not yet. If they disappeared overnight, people would be a bit pissed, but every single one of their contributions could be replaced by another service.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft has purchased the back seat of the '62 Camaro where Bill Gates' mother was knocked up by satan.
Although a growing percentage of the Slashdot demographic considers under-car light-effects and Digg.com to be good investments, the more experienced Slashdot visitors know a good potential for return when they see it.
Slashdot Investments Inc is bullish on California garages. That's right, we are marking this a strong BUY. Analysts agree that all creativity has either been crushed out of US corporations by bureaucracy or simply shipped to Bangalore to learn some manners.
The future of US creativity is clearly back where HP, Apple, Sun, Microsoft and Occidental Petroleum started: back among the old tires, oil stains, ham radios and bicycle parts.
Why, even the iPod was discovered in a California garage 10 years ago by a guy who was dosed with Klum-Sharapova Rays while trying to convert a personal massage device into a remote control for his Blaupunkt.
Forget California houses, they have weird things in them like Wozniak's Cave. The real potential is back in the Camaro Cradle... the Beemer Bedroom... in short, in the Tranny House!
Now's the time to get in on the ground floor of California garages! Call now, Vista and MemoryCard accepted.
Until next month... Happy profits!
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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.
You're right. In New York, you'd be lucky to get a garage for $2,500.
That's because nobody wants to live in Ohio.
Another case of companies with too much money, and no idea what to do with it. Yet the same Slashdot nubsacks that bitch when Microsoft wastes money, will cheer this.
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