bill
msg:797421 | 8:58 am on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0) |
takagi you gotta get out more ;) That bit of trivia seems to be well known around WebmasterWorld, but maybe it was lost in translation. I'm betting that it was a straight translation issue whether conscious or unconscious. It makes more sense to describe PageRank as a function relating to the web page rather than trying to get the Japanese populace to realize that Page can be a person's last name...let alone the founder's name. The description also works well the way it is now in Japanese; at least it seems logical to me.
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victor
msg:797422 | 10:39 am on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0) |
More to the point: When are they going to introduce BrinRank?
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Woz
msg:797423 | 10:58 am on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0) |
takagi, what bill said! Onya
Woz
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ergophobe
msg:797424 | 2:43 pm on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0) |
This is typical of the fallacies that historians of science run up against all the time. Scientists are always writing after the fact about why they did something, but when you study their lab notes, it's often simply untrue. Does anyone believe for a minute that at the very least the name was meant to be clever and to mean both and to be intentionally confusing?
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takagi
msg:797425 | 4:50 am on May 15, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Most likely they made up the link to Larry Page for legal reasons. If somebody else comes with a similar word (like 'Windows' <--> 'Lindows') it could help them to say from the start that Google came up with PageRank with 'Page' standing for Larry Page. Just as Bill, I think that it was like in the movie: Lost in Translation.
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