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[–] 161 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I work in an education setting and in the last month, Google started preloading the contents of other sites directly on the search page. It is wreaking havoc when combined with our blocking tools because kids will do a Google search for something innocuous and the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something else we have blocked.

It's incredibly frustrating.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    If you have to stick with google, you can use udm=14. https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/ You can set it as default search provider.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Google search has sucked for a couple years now. DuckDuckGo is better for everything except maps.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something

    Does that mean any search (AI insight notwithstanding) will get blocked if it includes a Reddit, Coursera or something on the blocklist result at all?

    Because if yes, that's much more than just asinine. It's basically blocking entire search topics due to the sheer fact that Reddit will appear on the furst page of Google a lot.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook (for example, "why do dry erase markers float", the results page flashes for a second and then the "this page is blocked" screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.

    And 2 kids can do the exact same search at the same time and get blocked for different sites or only one will get blocked.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Somewhat OT but why do you block coursera?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We have a different person that manages our block list so I don't know the reason for all the blocks. That said, we block https://www.coursehero.com/ not https://www.coursera.org/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh I thought it was a typo. I have no idea what coursehero is.

    I will say coursera is awesome for their calculus classes. (Or they were like 10+ years ago anyway.) Which caught me up after a long hiatus from college when I returned to finish.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, I don't know that we don't block coursera as well but the block I specifically saw was for a course hero. And some of the blocks that we have on are for security reasons over reliability reasons. We have to be hyper cautious about the students leaking any potentially PHI and some of the Google sign in setups are less secure than others.

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