DuckDuckGo Courts Schools as Google AI Policy Sparks Backlash

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg has published documentation on switching a school's default search engine to DuckDuckGo and invited schools to get in touch. The move follows backlash over Google's reported policy that schools disabling its other AI features would lose Google Search. On November 3, Google said Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search will be off by default for schools.