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 You appear to have confused my reference to "search engine" with a request for a simple index into statutory laws and regulations. You are absolutely correct that the statutes and  regulations, though ominously massive, are thoroughly indexed and readily searchable.

What I am talking about are entities like Google and Bing that pretend to be general, but in reality suppress the discovery of resources not aligned with their deeply ingrained biases. For example, they premptorily offer search results strongly favoring allopathic medicine over naturopathic, and statutory law over common. Their political, statist bias is almost impenetrable.

This is easily and indisputably demonstrable. Furthermore, these existing major search engines blatantly and disingenuously announce "millions of results in but a few seconds," but when you try to go beyond a handful of pages, you discover that to be an arrogant lie. 
 Absolutely understand now and agree. Well stated. 🙏