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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Google buys old garage

"Internet search leader Google Inc has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire -- the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world," reports AP. In fact, they bought the house as well.



The company's astounding growth has imbued its birthplace with the same kind of mystique attached to other hallowed Silicon Valley spots like the Palo Alto garage where Hewlett-Packard Co. started in 1938 and the Los Altos garage where Steve Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak first began to build Apple computers in the 1970s.



Google asked AP not to publish the address of the garage, but as the story points out, you can find it using Google....

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