Huh
>The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010715123343/https://www.googl...
This, like a lot of these, feels like a happy coincidence people probably realized at the time and couldn't say "no" to.
PageRank was originally designed to track Usenet posts that referenced one another. The "pages" in web nomenclature is a complete coincidence.
Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People
by Anarch157a on Sunday July 19, 2020 @10:50AM
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MySQL's fork, MariaBD, is also named after one os Widenius' daughters.
Mariabidet is a good one. This will stick in my head forever! Especially when flushing :)
So is MaxDB, which is also named after his son Max
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius#Personal_life
I had always assumed it was called PageRank because it ranks (web)pages
"PageRank was named after Larry Page?"
Interesting to me, as I thought it was Brin's idea, and 3 people worked on the paper.
That is all true, but they might still have agreed to name it after Larry Page - I'm certain they all had a sense of humor
Compare the αβγ paper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
MySQL is named after the one of co-founder's daughter, My?
I knew the Debian. but this is mind boggling.