DuckDuckGo courts schools as Google ties Search access to AI features

Google’s decision to bundle AI features with Search has opened the door for DuckDuckGo to court schools. On November 4, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg offered to help administrators make his search engine their classroom default. Weinberg’s open invitation Weinberg shared deployment instructions on X and offered to help schools make the DuckDuckGo search engine their default. His invitation came after Google’s announcement that Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search would be turned off by default for K–12 accounts. Administrators can enable each service separately. However, that choice has a limit. Schools that enable Google Search must also accept AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google offers no AI-free version of Search, TechCrunch reported . DuckDuckGo’s Kamyl Bazbaz criticized Google’s decision to bundle Search with AI features as forcing AI on schoolchildren.

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