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		staunch on March 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst... Any idea if PageRank was named after Larry rather than Web Pages?

nostrademons on March 18, 2011 [–]

Rumor has it that's true, unless Google itself is lying:

http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html

barrkel on March 18, 2011 | [–]

I'm fairly sure the name is a deliberate pun.

staunch on March 18, 2011 | | [–]

I guess Larry Page was inclined to create something with web pages the way people like Dennis are inclined to become dentists :-)

staunch on March 18, 2011 | | [–]

s/like Dennis/named Dennis/

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