Great analogy, when I was a kid and I was praying I thought how could God reply to everyone praying at the same time, I thought that maybe there was a queue of about 10 people at a time or so. But now years later I understand our reality more in terms of a simulated reality and computing power, so now I imagine God (Life force, the Universe, The big system, etc) like a search engine as you mention, where billions of people can make their requests at the same time and they get an immediate response, even if it's not obvious at that moment, then with time we realize that the results are manifestations on what we put our attention to, our focus.