Sorry about that, we're unable to discuss our projects with adjacent teams within the company. What you're saying is a valid frustration, the motivation behind the original comment was to put a thermometer on the repo.
Adjacent teams? It makes sense not to discuss it with totally unrelated teams, but a large Internet company wants to have its cake and eat it too - scrape all of the worlds websites, while simultaneously denying others from scraping its results. Limiting communication between adjacent teams (ie the scraper team and the bot blocker team) really seems like it would be a hinder rather than help.