The Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2006.Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In the ten years that I’ve been watching him, Larry Page has always wanted to play by his own rules. He wasn’t happy when, in 2001, Google’s investors asked him to step aside as C.E.O. for “adult supervision,” although he and his replacement, Eric Schmidt, forged a strong bond. Page’s drive to thin