Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Wednesday, May 29th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a big leak at Google might be the tech equivalent of the secret formula for Coca-Cola being

revealed for the first time. The ex open AI board members are starting to

explain why they tried to fire Sam Altman. Did the Biden administration pass

on Tic-Toc's concessions to avoid a ban, and remember delivery

apps how they do in these days.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Weird one to start the day with. A leak has reportedly revealed pages of internal

API documentation for Google search, some of which the details appear to contradict Google's public statements about how search actually works.

In other words, the black box that is the Google search algorithms secret sauce might have been

revealed. This is from noted SEO guru Ran Fishkin who got the documentation from

a leaker. The leak appears to come from GitHub and the most credible explanation for its exposure

matches what my anonymous source told me on our call.

These documents were inadvertently and briefly made public, many links in the documentation

point to private GitHub repositories and internal pages on Google's corporate site that requires specific

Google credentialed log ins.

During this probably accidental public period between March and May of

2024 the API documentation was spread to Hexstocks which indexes public

GitHub repos and found slash circulated by other sources. I'm certain that

others have a copy though it's odd that I could find no public discourse until now.

According to my ex-Gugler, documentation like this exists on almost every Google team explaining

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