Below are posts associated with the “Google” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Apple’s unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Good connection of the worrying story about removing anti-ICE apps to bigger problems in tech.
🔗 linkblog: Google Scholar Is Doomed
Oof, hadn’t thought of this, but as much as I’d like to further reduce Google dependence, this would really hurt.
🔗 linkblog: Google would like you to study with Gemini instead of cheat with it
This seems performative to me, and this paragraph gets at why I think so:
AI companies are increasingly pushing into education — perhaps in part to try and fight the reputation that AI tools have acquired that they help students cheat. Features like Gemini’s guided learning mode and ChatGPT’s similar study mode, which was announced last week, could theoretically help with actual learning, but the question is whether students will want to use these modes instead of just using the AI chatbots for easy answers.
🔗 linkblog: Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi
This article is one more push in the direction of my finally subscribing to Kagi.
🔗 linkblog: Google, de moteur de recherche à moteur de réponse
Voilà pourquoi il faut parler de la théorie de connaissance quand on parle de IA:
On est passé d’un moteur de recherche à un moteur de réponse. C’est-à-dire que les algorithmes proposent des versions rédigées à partir des données qu’ils auront collectées sur Internet, puis reformulées sans que vous ayez rendu visite aux sites contenant ces éléments de réponse à votre requête.
🔗 linkblog: Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
Look, I have some sympathy for Mozilla because it’s Mozilla… but Mozilla’s dependence on Google is a real problem.
🔗 linkblog: Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air
I didn’t need to read a printer recommendation article today, but I’m so glad I did. The rage about the world we live in is great.
🔗 linkblog: The future of search isn’t Google — and it’s $10 a month
I have been meaning for months to embrace Kagi, and this is pushing me further over that edge.
🔗 linkblog: Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’'
What reckless hubris. As I wrote earlier today, I’m in favor of more liberal IP law, but not so that businesses can swallow up content to profit from it.
surveillance (but not accountability) in school acceptable use policies
It’s that time of year (again) for signing the acceptable use policy for kiddo’s school, and I’m again grumpy about a lot of the details in here. Some of these details are me being a nitpicky academic, like the use of the word “technology” to refer to digital technologies alone. Others strike me as more serious, though.
Let’s take a look at this paragraph, listed under a “Roles and Responsibilities of Parents/Guardians” header: