Great! Let's teach kids that "searching the internet" does not have to mean "Google it"
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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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.
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.
DuckDuckGo
You are foolish for not using that by now.
And yes, DDG is Bing results, we know.
Maybe "naïve" or "ill informed". "Foolish" is pretty harsh.
Foolish is accurate.
Anyone supporting Google, Meta, Musk, Anthropic, Amazon, etc are fools.
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.
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.
“Be Evil”
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.
You promise?
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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