They really think they still have that much leverage, do they?
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
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.
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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.)
At least there would be a non-stop public fight over it, instead of just having to swallow whatever the corpos which captured the government want to put in their search result.
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
As someone else pointed out, the IT admin will just change the search engine behind the omnibar. Speaking as a sysadmin, I wouldn’t put up with a broken search bar, I’d simply fix it. Hell, even consumers have the power to change it in Chrome!
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”