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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by tyingq on Sunday July 19, 2020 @09:57AM (#23889393)
"PageRank was named after Larry Page?"

Interesting to me, as I thought it was Brin's idea, and 3 people worked on the paper.

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by sangnoir on Sunday July 19, 2020 @01:45PM (#23890967)
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
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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by schoen on Sunday July 19, 2020 @03:18PM (#23891665)
Compare the αβγ paper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...

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