DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
THE SO WHAT
Search is fragmenting along policy lines—schools are now a distribution channel for "AI-optional" defaults. If you sell into education, assume heterogeneous search and assistant behavior in the stack rather than a single Google baseline.
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