Google has purchased the former site of LinkedIn’s Mountain View headquarters for $1 billion in the largest Bay Area real estate sale in 2018. The search giant on Monday confirmed it bought the 12-building Britannia Shoreline Technology Park, totaling 795,663 square feet. Google declined to comment further. The deal caps a year of seemingly boundless growth and investment for Google and the rest of the tech industry, with vast digital profits fueling concrete acquisitions.