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For some reason I read that as if there was a page on Google called Larry. Guess plenty of people made the same mistake with Page Rank though, so I don't feel t
by richbradshaw 14y ago
For some reason I read that as if there was a page on Google called Larry. Guess plenty of people made the same mistake with Page Rank though, so I don't feel too bad!
- dfxm12 14y agoThis is why proper grammar is important. With the correct capitalization of proper nouns, there is little room for ambiguity. Of course, that doesn't help in speech...
- drcube 14y agoWell, regular English words can also be used in or as proper nouns, like Pagerank (or if the title of a website at Google was "Google's Larry Page").
- lostlogin 14y agoEveryday I park at work by a sign saying: security camera's in operation. The daily reminder is good for me.
- Dove 14y agoThat parses. It just implies there's only one security camera. And you and the sign painter already know of and speak informally about it. And it's operating RIGHT NOW.
- lostlogin 14y agoHadn't thought of it like that. There aren't any cameras unfortunately. The spate of break ins was dealt with by installing a sign. A very proactive sign. Wonder what they will do to its punctuation if 2 cameras get installed...
- sjs382 14y agoYa know, I never even considered that PageRank was named after Larry.
- tribeofone 14y agoIt wasn't.
- habosa 14y agoYes it was: http://web.archive.org/web/20090424093934/http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090424093934/http://www.google....
- lubujackson 14y agoExcept that it was, according to Google: "The first and most well known is PageRank, named for Larry Page (Google’s co-founder and CEO)." http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html http://www.google.com/competition/howgooglesearchworks.html
- fwr 14y agoThe term "Web Page" was also coined in his honor.
- IvyMike 14y agoHe must have been aware of the convenient double meaning. We all know that if he had been born Larry Bartowski, it would not have been called BartowskiRank.
- tribeofone 14y agoRevisionist history. You don't want to know where they got the first name for it from...