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Microsoft brings ad-free Web searches to Atlanta schools

By Mark Niesse
Aug 22, 2013

Atlanta Public Schools is one of the first school systems in the nation to participate in a Microsoft Corp. program that allows students to search the Web through Bing.com without advertisements.

The Bing for Schools pilot program aims to avoid the commercialization of student web searches and adds filters to block adult content.

Aleigha Henderson-Rosser, Atlanta Public Schools’ director of instructional technology, says the education-based search engine will provide safe search options without the distraction of ads.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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