I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a superior search engine. Google has done a similar job. For two weeks as they handled the paperwork the young men had nowhere to deposit the money.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who with Larry Page co-founded Google one of the most profitable Internet companies. Together Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company. in computer science.