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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by cruano on Sunday July 19, 2020 @10:54AM (#23889751)
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...

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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by dehrmann on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:19PM (#23892159)
This, like a lot of these, feels like a happy coincidence people probably realized at the time and couldn't say "no" to.
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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by neilk on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:26PM (#23892564)
PageRank was originally designed to track Usenet posts that referenced one another. The "pages" in web nomenclature is a complete coincidence.
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