Re:Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I
by rdtsc on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:59PM
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> They can artificially inflate the number of users who use their AI by including everyone who uses their search engine
Yup I could see that being plausible. It’s like Microsoft and Copilot. Project managers got to boast how they got AI “adoption” numbers up just by shoving it into people’s faces.
I have some guesses:
They can artificially inflate the number of users who use their AI by including everyone who uses their search engine.
It trains people to be increasingly dependent on whatever google tells them instead of checking through, reading multiple sources, and verifying information for themselves.
They hope to let people pay them to manipulate what AI returns for certain searches (either mentioning certain things/products or suppressing mention of them).
Google search is getting increasingly useless as a constant flood of AI slop websites fills their results and people will abandon searching with if they can't find some way to provide people with the information they are looking for. (it's not going well so far https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google...)