[mrweasel]

That is much more terrifying that Google may not fully understand their search results, compared to not wanting to reveal their search algorithm.

[username90]

When you have hundreds of engineers putting together models to create the result page there will be nobody who understands the entire thing.

[mrweasel]

True, but imagine going to Ford and asking: How does your cars work?

If they came back with: “Frankly we’re not entirely sure, we just jigglede the handles in the factory until they came out like we wanted them to.” Then they’d not be allowed on to sell any cars anymore.

[qwerpoi]

You mean kinda like how no one truly understands aerodynamic lift, but we are still able to create great airplanes because we have accurate models and do loads of testing?