Fewer than half of Norwegian children now search with Google.
Norwegian children aged 9 to 18 are moving from Google to AI chatbots for schoolwork, researchers report. Google use in that group fell from 72 percent in 2024 to 47 percent this year. A team at NTNU read 173 studies and found no clear answer on what this does to young minds.
Why it mattersChildren are handing the searching step to a machine before they learn to judge sources. Teachers and parents must set rules with almost no evidence to lean on.
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