Are you suggesting that large online spaces should have laws and police to investigate and enforce the laws? Of course this is already in place, but not at all enforced in the same manner as a public place.

It allows you to search a collection of sources for information. Maybe you want to search a group of 20 tech blogs that you trust, just as one example.

Before Google, this was a common technique used by search engines to direct users to trusted content sources.

https://kagi.com/

It’s not free, but not expensive. You are not the product. They have catalog-like search and curated results.