What’s your Preople rank

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 7:25 AM PT Comments (6)

Forget Google PageRank, its time to get your Preople rank. Did you know that Harry Potter is more popular than President Bush. Nicole Kidman truly kicks Tom Cruise’s ass. Or that on the internet, Jesus Christ is marginally ahead of Bill Gates

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May 10th, 2005
4:58 PM PT
jarkolicious said:

Preople

I ran across this new service, thanks to Om, called “Preople” that calculates some number based on your first and last name that is supposed to represent your popularity. How it comes up with the number it does is completely beyond me but…

July 17th, 2008
4:36 AM PT

[...] calculation”. In the early days of this product - March 2005 -, it received quite some press coverage and several web celebs - like Matt Mullenweg - calculated their score. Just like Twittercounter [...]

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May 10th, 2005
11:10 AM PT
Michael said:

Hmmm no link?

May 10th, 2005
6:43 PM PT
Jesse Kopelman said:

While I’m not suprised your Preople ranking is 1000X mine, I am shamed it is a thousand times mine and we are both completely in the green . . .

May 11th, 2005
6:27 AM PT
Om Malik said:

Jesse

what can i say. maybe i might have higher rank, but then if you look at the top ranked people with the exception of the good lord, the intelligence and rank are in inverse proportion.

May 11th, 2005
7:09 AM PT
Boris said:

Hello everybody. I’m the founder of Preople.com and I’m always pleased to hear that People like Preople. I can’t tell you are secret formula as you might have expected! I do hope that my own rating goes up (1200+ at this moment) as a result of these posts. If you have any questions about Preople don’t hesitate, email me: boris@preople.com

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