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Origin of the PageRank&trademark;

This article in the NYTimes includes a comment on the origin of the name of Google’s mystically powerful PageRank&trademark;:

The cornerstone of Google’s search technology is something it calls Page Rank (after Larry Page, not Web page).

Heh. I learn something new every day.

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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.