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PageRank was named after Larry Page? MySQL is named after the one of co-founder's daughter, My? I knew the Debian. but this is mind boggling.
by ezoe 6y ago
PageRank was named after Larry Page?
MySQL is named after the one of co-founder's daughter, My?
I knew the Debian. but this is mind boggling.
- tyingq 6y ago"PageRank was named after Larry Page?" Interesting to me, as I thought it was Brin's idea, and 3 people worked on the paper.
- sangnoir 6y agoThat 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
- schoen 6y agoCompare the αβγ paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93Gamow_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
- naringas 6y agoI had always assumed it was called PageRank because it ranks (web)pages
- Anarch157a 6y agoMySQL's fork, MariaBD, is also named after one os Widenius' daughters.
- cruano 6y agoHuh >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.google.com/press/funfacts.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010715123343/https://www.googl...