{"id":952101,"date":"2026-11-04T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952101\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:50:22","slug":"google-says-theres-no-way-to-use-search-without-using-artificial-intelligence-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952101\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says there\u2019s no way to use Search without using artificial intelligence | Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> just acknowledged that you can\u2019t use Google Search without using artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The search giant announced a slate of new AI products for classrooms and schools on Tuesday as well as more ways for teachers and schools to limit or restrict use of those AI tools. The company said the schools should have control over whether students use AI in the classroom. There\u2019s one catch, though: if a school or teacher blocks the use of Google\u2019s AI features, students won\u2019t be able to use Google<\/a> Search.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 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,\u201d company executives wrote in a blogpost. \u201cAccess to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a comment to the New York Times<\/a>, Chris Phillips, Google\u2019s vice-president for education, said that there is no Google Search without AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cSearch and AI are deeply integrated,\u201d said Phillips. A school-wide ban on AI would mean that students \u201cwill not have access to search, and they\u2019ll see a message from their school that indicates it\u2019s not available\u201d, he told the Times. The Guardian also reached out to Google but did not hear back by publication.<\/p>\n

To some, the move reads like a penalty for not implementing Google\u2019s AI features.<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who recently imposed a one-year moratorium on generative AI tools in city schools through the eighth grade, said Google was exploiting its near-total control of online search.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,\u201d Mamdani posted on X. \u201cNo corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children. Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.\u201d Lina Khan, former chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, echoed his statement, tweeting that Google was using its monopoly on search to \u201cto coerce schools into adopting AI\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ubiquity of Google Search has long made it a critical tool for students, and losing access to it may prove enough of a reason to opt in to using new AI features for schools. Google has also maintained a stranglehold on technology in US classrooms for years by offering cheap and free products. From Gmail and Google Docs to Google Classroom and Google Chromebooks, the company\u2019s suite of software and hardware solutions are among the most widely used in schools.<\/p>\n

One of the new features Google announced today was Guided Learning, an AI study tool that \u201ccoaches students through the process of problem solving\u201d rather than giving them the answer. The company is planning to integrate Guided Learning directly into Google Search.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor example, if a student pastes a complex physics problem or asks for help writing a book report in Search, they\u2019ll see prompts to help them think critically and work through the concepts, without going directly to the answer,\u201d the company wrote in a blogpost.<\/p>\n

Lila Byock, founder of Schools Beyond Screens, called Google\u2019s announcement a \u201chostile ultimatum\u201d. Schools Beyond Screens is a national coalition of parents and teachers advocating for more student-centered policies on the use of screens in schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of bullying has no place in our schools,\u201d Byock said in a statement. \u201cEducational value \u2013 not shareholder value \u2013 must determine which products are used by students and regulators must intervene to prevent big tech from exploiting schoolchildren for profit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google just acknowledged that you can\u2019t use Google Search without using artificial intelligence. The search giant announced a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-952101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}