Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by Legend2440 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#50486681)

Even if you disable the 'AI overview', the search results themselves are powered by AI models as well. They have been since at least ~2018 with BERT.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by ceejayoz on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:31PM (#50486773)

No one's objecting to that aspect of things.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by p_l on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:12PM (#50488319)

Won't be first time there's unexpected consequences due to how someone formed the legal argument

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by aesthesia on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:39PM (#50489321)

What about if results are (re)ranked using an LLM? It's not inconceivable that they would do this.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by ceejayoz on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:44PM (#50489382)

For schools, I think if you just let them turn off the AI summaries everyone would be fairly happy.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by gnicholas on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:34PM (#50487786)

Maybe, but not necessarily. For example, I recently searched for someone who worked at a company using a plain language query. The AI identified one person (correctly, as it happens), but all the links below were to different people.

Obviously the results were not driven by the same AI that produced the summary.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by oenton on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:46PM (#50489399)

Please comment in good faith. The discussion is about generative AI.

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