Instead of relying on ignorance to push your agenda, you could frame that paragraph against what search engines were doing at the time, how Google was doing something different, and what Google still is transparent about today [1][2].

Publishing "the algorithm" doesn't have value for most of the internet, it is impractical to use even if it was, and bad actors would use it to destroy search quality to the detriment of e-commerce everywhere.

[1] https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks

[2] https://research.google/pubs/