They really think they still have that much leverage, do they?
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.
Probably Gemini told them that would be an awesome Idea.
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!
DuckDuckGo
You are foolish for not using that by now.
searxng if youre into self hosting
Maybe “naïve” or “ill informed”. “Foolish” is pretty harsh.
The assumption of tech savvy around here is wild! Never been in another online space where people assume everyone is at a reasonable tech level.
You’ve never been on the internet before lemmy?
:) Since the 90s! But nowhere, and I do mean nowhere, is as snotty and assumptive about the man-on-the-street’s tech savvy.
Foolish is accurate.
Anyone supporting Google, Meta, Musk, Anthropic, Amazon, etc are fools.
Happy Kagi user here
And yes, DDG is Bing results, we know.
It’s a mix of indexes, Bing has been a minority share for years now.
Really sucks that there are no other search engines to use.
use duckduckgo then. google search is mostly AI generated anyways now.
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
I’m gonna forward this article to DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I imagine they could help the school district do what Google can’t.
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
Good, keep shooting your self.
Schools all across the world are rejecting AI, this will open the road for alternative search engines.
