This comes off as comically evil. Disabling the AI summaries in search results is trivial, so them refusing to do so and blocking search entirely feels like a blatant attempt at coercion. Isn't it an abuse of monopoly power?

Oh no! What shall they do?

Google now acts as a mafia. Why does a democracy allow rogue corporations blackmail schools and universities? That can only happen because a mafia runs the USA right now - otherwise that would have already shut down.

I think it is time to do the only logical thing here - and end Google. Nobody needs that monster company anyway.

What do schools need Google for anyway? Had education deteriorated this much already?

kagi should swoop in and offer some sort of deal.

Get people used to search without ads or influence or data collection or any incentive other than getting you what you asked for as honestly as possible.

Or maybe more pointedly, get them to even become aware of the difference between home and school, or everyone else's computers and their own.

win-win

Like, what are we even doing as a society?

Google really is an evil, enshittified company now. I see it every day when I'm on YouTube with an ad-blocker. "Experiencing interruptions?" Yeah, Google, thanks for fucking with me. If you don't want me viewing your videos, don't make them accessible on the standard protocols.

There are a host of other search engines. I use search.brave.com myself (after leta.mullvad.com was decommissioned).

Students will learn about other search engines, and about how corporations are not your friends. Both good lessons to learn.

Wikipedia > Google Why on earth did we let that diseased corporation into our classrooms in the first place?!

Wow, blatant monopoly behavior