Was This 1997 Encounter The Moment Larry Page First Got The Idea For Google?

Most people know that Larry Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1995, and the pair worked on a search engine algorithm that, in 1998, officially turned into Google Inc. The reason Google quickly became the dominant search engine is that it did something that other search engines had not bothered to do: It examined the number and relevance of links between pages, not just the keywords on them. Today, Bloomberg tells a charming story of the other guy — an Italian science and math professor — w...