Importantly, PageRank doesn't work today - you need something else. It was one of many possible ranking hacks, and one that worked at the particular time in that particular state of the web where nobody was gaming links because PageRank didn't exist yet. Maybe you could invent a good ranking algorithm for the modern internet, perhaps just the reciprocal of the number of ads on the page, minus its AI detector score, but probably not that.
Unimportantly, it's named after Larry Page, not after the fact that it ranks pages.
Unimportantly, it's named after Larry Page, not after the fact that it ranks pages.