takagi - 8:34 am on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

On 'google.com' [google.com] you can read that the word 'Page' in PageRank stands for Larry Page and not for a page as in home-page.

The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank (tm), and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.

But not on Google Japan. There you can find Larry Page is written in katakana as "rari- peiji" [google.co.jp] but when they write about PageRank [google.co.jp] the word is explained as "pe-ji jun'i" with "pe-ji" in katakana and "jun'i" (order, rank, precedence) in kanji. It is very common when writing about a page of a book, fax or internet-page to write it in katakana as "pe-ji". So on Google Japan PageRank is just the ranking of an internet-page.