points by crazygringo 4 days ago | 0 comments
This makes perfect sense. How is it even news?
Google Search uses lots of AI. Google is now allowing schools to turn off all AI entirely. That, obviously turns off Google Search. This is the feature working as intended.
It seems like school administrators will get to control which products get AI, individually. Which is what they've been asking for:
> After listening to schools, teachers, leading researchers, and policymakers, we are now updating our approach to controls for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search. Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.
Am I missing something here...? This announcement seems to be 100% good, but people are writing like it's 100% bad.
[–] 2arrs2ells 4 days ago
[–] crazygringo 3 days ago
Providing a hobbled version of Search that isn't what students use at home isn't exactly teaching useful skills, is it?
That makes about as much sense asking students to use MS-WORD for DOS instead of Google Docs. What's the point?
If you want your students to be able to use Google Search, then you should be giving them the real Google Search the rest of the world uses.