Google guys say bye to California

Page, a co-founder of Google, speaks during a demo of the Chrome browser at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Sept 2, 2008. Sergey Brin is joining Page in reducing ties to the state where they built their fortunes. — Peter DaSilva/The New York Times

For nearly three decades, Google has been steeped in the lore of Silicon Valley.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University graduate students, created the search engine in 1998 and built the startup out of a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. Over time, Google became a nearly US$4 trillion (RM16.27 trillion) juggernaut, helping to cement the Northern California region as the global epicenter of the internet industry.