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What is the role of “secret” in the headline? Every internal action of every company is secret, so it adds nothing other than innuendo to the article.

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If some parts of how their ad auctions work have been published by them, then a distinction exists.

This is for private companies. Google/Alphabet is a public company.

That's ... not what that means.

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