Ink

[toolman]

I think I'm beginning to understand the ink algo. It may be based on something we'll call SEO

S- S is for seek or search. Seek out the people who know how to rank well. Find out what they do and how they do it. The best way to find them is to offer a chance at cracking the algo in a short period of time.

E- E is for extract and extrapolate. Take the data collected from the first step and analyze and model it until you have a fix that will effectively render the collected techniques useless.

O- O is for obfuscate. We'll let this one speak for itself:

ob·fus·cate (bf-skt, b-fskt)
tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates
To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made... to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert Conquest).
To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.

Obfuscation can be acheived by mixing data from various sources and combining them in unpredictable ways. This conglomeration of data may actually be a stop gap measure to buy time while building (or buying) a better algo. Who knows?