You know it's good when they have to threaten and force people to use it...

"Don't be evil" 🤡

Time for DDG to step in.

I'm sure it's a tactic to make the schools allow AI, but I hope they can resist. Google does not need a stranglehold on every person in every market. Google search has gotten worse anyway, so even duck duck go would be fine. Maybe even use this as an opportunity to teach kids about data privacy.

I hope schools reject Google. They’ve indoctrinated them into using Google products long enough. I’ve witnessed kids not knowing what the address bar is or a URL, only referring to it as Google search. Many can’t navigate a real computer if they grew up only using the school chromebooks. This has to change

Get Google, Microsoft and Apple and all the rest OUT of schools.

Google isn't the only search engine, no matter how much it acts like it is.

Lol great buisness plan, force schools to find alternatives and act suprised when students continue to use those alternatives into their adult life.

Duck Duck Go ftw.

Oh shucks..

🦆🦆▶️

Just use DuckDuckGo with all AI stuff turned off. If google thinks it is a great idea to remove itself from pupils and schools, their choice.

I feel bad for kids still learning in the formative years

So much has changed and I fear it has been for the worse. At least in the US they are trying their hardest to dismantle education

Those chromebooks are a smoking deal aren't they school systems, we told you in countless meetings, emails, and snail mail this was a bad idea.

Sure, Google is evil, etc. But the school admin can default omnibar search to another search engine. Like noai.duckduckgo. com.

*quickly steps in a time machine that takes me to the employee lounge in Google HQ in 2005, in middle of a lunch hour*

Hey guys! Don't mind me too much, I'm from the future! But you should know that in 2026, Google gets the bright idea of limiting which schools have access to Google Search.

*hears assorted cries of "WHAT???" and "HOW?!?!?!" from the crowd*

*grins devilishly, waves, and steps back into the time machine*

Nothing of value was lost…

My 2nd grader son loves ducks. He will be happy with this change.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Oh nooo they won't have access to Google Search. How terrrrible. What ever will they doooo

Sounds like a win win. They don't have to use ai if they choose not to, and they also get incentivized to explore switching to other search engines

School admin should just block googles domains and get back to teaching.

There are others that work just fine, bye!

In case you still had doubts that google is evil

Good. Let them discover early in their lives that we do not need to depend on big tech companies.

This is known as "malicious compliance", here's hoping it backfires

Schools should pay for Kagi

Yes, yes. Let Google keep digging its own grave. 🪏

Your terms are acceptable.

Block google, use duckduckgo.

Even better, the computer science and/or IT portions of school should have students learn how to set up, configure, and maintain their own instances of SearXNG that the school could use locally on their intranet.

Education, exposing kids to open source alternatives, and the school gets their own, and better, search aggregator that strips AI and ads. Sounds like a win-win-win to me.

Might be nice for a certain age group to make them evaluate multiple search engines as a class project. ("If it provided a summary, did it say what its sources were?" "When you checked the sources, did they actually say what the summary said they said?" "How many actual results did it return for these searches?" "How many of the results on the first page were useful?" etc.) Improved media literacy in general, and they all learn that more than one search engine exists.

Great. Make the kids use something else. There are a wealth of alternatives that will yield better results, fewer ads, and less invasive tracking.

Time to use DuckDuckGo or Startpage

Fuck you Pichai, you fucking banchode.

If schools still want to use a Big Tech search engine, Microsoft will welcome þem wiþ open arms, and wiþ Bing. Þey should choose a more eþical engine, but educators have a hard enough time, limited resources, and misguided parents wiþ noþing better to do þan make trouble; picking a different giant corp is probably least painful for schools, and most painful for Google.

Oh no, Google uses the overwhelmingly effective strategy of throwing a tantrum and snatching their toys back. /s

Get lost and get bent. We don't need you.

Meta fight back!

Man, I used to love using Googles ecosystem but recently on Chromecast YouTube they started pushing non skippable politics adds at me like gangbusters.. That was the last straw. Finally got all ads out of YT and stopped using Gboard and went back to FF. Getting out of Gmail next. Enough is enough.

Duckduckgo is terrible, I try to use it every year purely because they gave me a free shirt a decade ago.