techcrunch.com - 1/12/2009
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Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches . In it, physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) posits that a single Google search generates 7g of CO2, versus ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling
to the reference desk of your local library. Today,
search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home. Tools like email, online books and ...
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Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 1/11/2009
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technology.timesonline.co.uk —
Click here for how to reduce the footprint
of the Web | Google's response to the story
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new ...
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Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Disagreement over Google's carbon footprint
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Google uses to answer your query. Google claims that its servers generate 0.2g CO2 per search, and counters that "the average car driven for one kilometer (0.6 miles for those of in the U.S.) produces as many greenhouse gases as a thousand Google searches." Kevin Marks, who works at Google on their Open Social project, says on his personal blog that people generate about 6g of CO2 from simply breathing for 10 minutes. Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch looks at a few other activities to put this carbon output in context. A single ...
Preposterous Stories Make for Good BS Indicators
SmoothSpan Blog —
... Techcrunch “Are We Killing the Planet One Search at a Time?”: Jason Kincaid writes an excellent post that asks all the right questions from my perspective. Bully for Techcrunch. ...
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