The Power of Frugality

Page and Bryn were almost maniacally focused on endlessly improving upon their one big idea. They never met an engineering problem that they couldn't solve themselves. Google's home page was simply the Google logo, a text field to enter a search query,. A button that said, I'm feeling lucky, which automatically took you to the first result returned. Some observers later estimate that for every dollar spent, Google had three times more computer power than its competitors.