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"So Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm is named for him—is pushing his way into the CEO job, leaving Schmidt as ch
by ctkrohn 16y ago
"So Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm is named for him—is pushing his way into the CEO job, leaving Schmidt as chairman."
Really? I was always under the impression that PageRank got its name because, you know, it ranked pages. Is there more of a story behind the naming?
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoFrom http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html : 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. (Edited to remove the snark. Sorry, it's been a long day and it isn't over.)
- zck 16y agoI can't tell which one is the joke. The explanation is similar to the name pg gave to the markup language for Viaweb, RTML: >We made up various explanations for what Rtml was supposed to stand for, but actually I named it after Robert Morris, the other founder of Viaweb, whose username is Rtm. source: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
- huntero 16y agoI had to look that one up too. According to http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html, it's actually named after Larry Page. Of course, that could just be some Google humor. I would guess that PageRank is named for the obvious reason, but that it won out over other names for the connection to the co-founder.