Democracy has some intentional opacity though. Consider the impact of making your personal voting choice public. AFAIK, nobody has ever tried that because of t

Democracy has some intentional opacity though. Consider the impact of making your personal voting choice public. AFAIK, nobody has ever tried that because of the dangers of vote buying and coercion. Essentially, gaming the system. (I don't think this proves anything! Simply wanted to suggest that comparing search to democracy doesn't significantly change the analysis wrt opacity.)