Knowing the algorithms without having the data they operate on is useless.
And even if you had the two, at this point you still wouldn't be able to debug how a result is returned. The code is fairly complicated, there are many signals and quite a bit of ML.
source: worked as search ranking engineer and had quite a bit of difficulty debugging certain controversial results despite having access to everything.
And even if you had the two, at this point you still wouldn't be able to debug how a result is returned. The code is fairly complicated, there are many signals and quite a bit of ML.
source: worked as search ranking engineer and had quite a bit of difficulty debugging certain controversial results despite having access to everything.