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From http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html : The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™,
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
From 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