"<i>Google in December announced a program to give its Chromebook computers to schools for $99 each.</i>"<p>That's an interesting use of "give."<p>Anyway, the idea of an ad free search engine hits right at the heart of Google's business. While I know many adults who are unconcerned about their own online privacy, many of them have serious concerns about their children's.<p>Google is entangled with Schmidt's creepy line.
Not sure I understand this - if a school so desperately wants ad-free search, just deploy an adblock plugin to the school's browsers? It's a very strange thing to 'give away' as an incentive.
I can't help but feel that this is typical of Microsoft's sales/PR team.<p>Generate a false problem:
"You don't wan't ads on your search engine do you!?"<p>Claim to have a solution:
"You can use Bing! We don't have ads for students!"<p>As a systems admin for a large school district, I'm very comfortable stating that what Microsoft and Apple offer to education is a joke compared to Google's offerings.<p>Not even comparable products.