The bleak reality is that most Americans trust private corporations more than their own government. Government-sponsored search is literally 1984. If it's just

The bleak reality is that most Americans trust private corporations more than their own government. Government-sponsored search is literally 1984. If it's just a competitor, we've seen that unless there is an external force driving the initiatives, government ventures are often just less successful than unfettered private corporations (e.g. NASA post Space Race).