October 2, 2006 | In Business, Technology |
Google has purchased a Silicon Valley landmark; the garage in which co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first created their famous search engine.
The company bought this 1,900-square foot Menlo Park home from Susan Wojcicki, now a Google employee, who rented her garage to Page and Brin eight years ago.
Google’s five-month existence in the Menlo Park garage saw plenty of crucial work that eventually contributed to the search engine’s multi-billion dollar success today.
There’s no official word on how much the property cost, but similar homes in the area have sold for between $1.1 million and $1.3 million.
“We plan to preserve the property as a part of our living legacy,” according to Google spokesman, Jon Murchinson.
This Menlo Park home will now join the ranks of other famous Silicon Valley landmarks, such as the Palo Alto garage where Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1938, and the Los Altos garage where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the first Apple computers.
