The "Google will cut off search to schools" headlines are so misleading. What is happening is that, for schools using Google Workspace or whatever they call the edu version of that, blocking AI features will block search (since the search results are AI slop). Which, as long as the search results are ensloppified, is probably the right thing to be doing. But it's also a vile attempt to force schools to accept AI. All of this has no impact on anonymous use of Google search, which is how schools *should* be using it - and with udm=14 in the browser's custom search url pattern. Schools should not be giving students Google accounts.