"We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said."
Doesn't this sound like the exact things security people used to say before realizing that they needed to make their mechanisms public in order to ensure their security.
"We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said."
Doesn't this sound like the exact things security people used to say before realizing that they needed to make their mechanisms public in order to ensure their security.