They really think they still have that much leverage, do they?
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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This will backfire hard. It will create students who do not conflate Google with search.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the middle of making a big mistake.
They seem to be going all-in on bad ideas lately, losing all that ad revenue from ai giving the answers before they can bombard the inquirer with ad slop and now this. Let them die a fiery death, lol
Great! Let's teach kids that "searching the internet" does not have to mean "Google it"
I've read that young folks have dropped the term and now say "search it". I'll have to ask my young ones. Unfortunately, they often answer in ways they think daddy wants to hear, despite my admonitions to stop that shit.
No they fucking say "chatgpt it" 💀
I've often heard that they'll, "ask chat," or they say, "I asked chat," and show me a ChatGPT log.
Thems fighting words at my house
DuckDuckGo
You are foolish for not using that by now.
And yes, DDG is Bing results, we know.
It's a mix of indexes, Bing has been a minority share for years now.
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Happy Kagi user here
I prefer Qwant. Better results, especially when searching in other languages than English.
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Really sucks that there are no other search engines to use.
Good, keep shooting your self.
Schools all across the world are rejecting AI, this will open the road for alternative search engines.
Another commenter said that the IT admin would simply change the search engine behind the omnibar. Easy money and nothing really changes except the kids betting better search results.
Kids shouldn't gamble.
Don't be Evil...be nice to those quarterly reports.
Google and Republicans want stupid easy-to-control kids who grow up into stupid easy-to-control adults that can't think for themselves.
Search should be a public utility at this point.
But then again I don't know how you'd neutrally maintain a search algorithm.
Regardless, depending on a private company for something so fundamental to societal functions seems bad.
the way it worked originally, pagerank. SEO, will never cease sadly; goodhart's law n all, but it's better than what we have now
You want the government running search?! That's an absolute horror show; you see the impossibility of neutrality.
Here in Florida, "homosexual teen" would lead to sites about conversion camps. We might just score a Democrat in the governor's mansion today, so that would change. And then change again. Imagine the non-stop public fight over what is and is not appropriate to show in a search. AH! (I'm actually having a giggle thinking about such fighting. "Trannie" would lead to results about transmissions one year, a transexual slur the next, banned altogether the next.)
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I'm gonna forward this article to DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I imagine they could help the school district do what Google can't.
use duckduckgo then. google search is mostly AI generated anyways now.
google: ai summaries are hurting our advertisement revenue
also google: we'll block you if you reject our ai
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shut off their refrigerators.
DuckDuckGo and Startpage are the way
Had to switch to DDG on my phone. I rarely browse the internet that way, but when I was sitting in my flea market booth the ads were fucking unbearable.
YaCy for the brave and independent
“Be Evil”
You promise?
Make it so anyone can turn it off 🙏
Probably Gemini told them that would be an awesome Idea.
Okay. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Google.
To me the title reads as, "Allow us to abuse you or we wont let you be abused by us".
In other words the best solution is to reject both anyway, Fuck ai.
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sounds like a great opportunity to drop google from education infrastructure and rely on a more balanced approach of books, papers, and physically handing shit in.
dunno. worked for me when I was in school.
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