Update: Google’s garage days mapped

updated | Google has bought the Menlo Park, California garage where the company was founded, reports say.

The BBC report said the original Googleplex (New link shows the house) was owned by a friend of one of Brin’s girlfriends and leased to Serge and Brin for about $1,700 a month in 1998.

Just in A reader sent us the address: 232 Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park CA.

BBC reported that Google declined to say how much it paid for the Menlo Park home, but similar homes in the neighborhood sell for about $1.3 million.

Zillow.com estimated the home (address supplied by reader, not confirmed) was worth $1,170,722 on Oct. 3.

I’ve asked Google to confirm the address and will let you know what I hear.

The former owner, Susan Wojcicki, is now Google’s vice president of product management.

The home is intended to be preserved as part of the company’s living history.

Garage cred goes a long way in tech circles, and Google is not the first to buy their landmark plot. BBC reports HP paid $1.7 million for the garage where it was founded in Palo Alto in 1938.

Now that we have the picture, does anyone know the house and will they share the address so we can Google Earth it?

Thanks qukza.