Public libraries serve the public good in the way I'm proposing: no search there yields any spam or "optimized" results that serve ulterior agendas or biases.

Public libraries serve the public good in the way I'm proposing: no search there yields any spam or "optimized" results that serve ulterior agendas or biases. A government service, especially one whose design and contents are fully open to scrutiny by any interested party at any time -- this would be a big win in terms of encouraging trust in that service, as Wikipedia largely does now. No corporation will ever agree to serve solely that mission, especially under those constraints. Yet residents of an open democracy deserve nothing less -- open access to unbiased data. If ever the US needed such a thing, it would be now.