I don't think there's a correct word here. He's talking about widely differing things and using a vague word to try to relate those things. The correct thing is

I don't think there's a correct word here. He's talking about widely differing things and using a vague word to try to relate those things. The correct thing is to reject the relation and treat each of the notions he's talking about (such as web search results, government policy, and economic models) as the distinct things that they are.