Google's 'no AI, no search' stance likened to Microsoft's antitrust bundling defense
dinabass · x · 2026-11-04
NYT reporter Mike Isaac quotes Google telling schools that opting out of AI in the classroom means losing Search too, and asks whether Google's carefully-worded claim of a technical reason it can't turn off AI in Search holds any truth.
Dina (dinabass) draws the parallel to Microsoft's 1999 antitrust defense that the browser couldn't be separated from Windows — a claim dismantled in court when the trial demo video was discredited. The thread frames Google's AI bundling in education against antitrust history.
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