[pmarreck]

Gee, wouldn't it be great if we could just look up the open-source code for the most popular search engine on the "open" Internet?

Given the amount of power and money they now have, effectively having "won the game," it seems ethical to me to open-source their entire search algorithm.

[tyingq]

Given the heavy reliance on ML Google has for search these days, I'm not sure that would help much.

They would have to open source the indexed data and training data too, assuming you wanted to know why site A doesn't rank well for term X.

[adbge]

Buy Google from Alphabet and have at it.

[laser]

But if it's open, people will game it...

[pmarreck]

Do people game open encryption?

[laser]

Just because they both use the word "open", does not make them structurally the same. Show me a ranking algorithm I can't game...