Larry goes back and ultimately has the breakthrough leap. Oh, we supply rankings to web pages themselves. Larry says, wow. The big problem here is not annotation. We should use it not for ranking annotations, but for ranking searches. Ding ding ding ding ding. And thus, at least the germ of the idea for PageRank as we all know it today is born.

Larry goes back to Terry, and he's like, okay. This ranking idea, this seems like a really interesting computer science problem. The annotation thing seems messy. Why don't you just focus on rankings? So Larry goes back and ultimately has the breakthrough leap. Oh, we supply rankings to web pages themselves. Larry says, wow. The big problem here is not annotation. We should use it not for ranking annotations, but for ranking searches. Ding ding ding ding ding. And thus, at least the germ of the idea for PageRank as we all know it today is born.