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It wasn't.



Except 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


The term "Web Page" was also coined in his honor.


He 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.


Revisionist history. You don't want to know where they got the first name for it from...





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