Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.
A "secret" algorithm. Unlike all those other companies that just publish their proprietary algorithms on the net for anyone to try and game.
My poor eyes are exhausted from all the rolling.
I guess "secret" in the sense that not only the internals of the algorithm, but even the existence of the it is not quite public knowledge.