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> Unimportantly, it's named after Larry Page, not after the fact that it ranks pages.

I've always taken it as a happy double play since it is named after Page, but also ranks pages.

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His name may have influenced him to make his career from ranking pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism


I've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?

> name change at 18 probably

That's so cool because it's true, and holds very strongly with the semantic concept


name change at 18 probably

He'd probably grow up to be the guy who goes around making people do things that sound like their names.

He would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.

It's not like he was going to be a Congressional staffer nor working at a newspaper. But if he was on-call for a lot of his career that'd be kind of amusing

He could also have worked for Motorola.



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