news.bbc.co.uk - 1/12/2009
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Google signs inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, file pic from October 2008
tgdaily.com - 1/19/2009
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tgdaily.com —
Chicago (IL) - Google Drive, or Gdrive as
it is better known, has to be the most...
anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning ...
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Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in ...
pcworld.com - 1/15/2009
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pcworld.com —
Google to cut 7 services Google is shutting
down various unpopular projects it has been working on...
and is also sacking about 100 employees, in what it seems to be a bad week at the search giant's offices around the world. So what is actually ...
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Google Kills Services: Notebook, Dodgeball, Others Gone
technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 1/13/2009
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technologyexpert.blogspot.com —
Going green? If you are going to search
for "green tech" on Google, you'd best buy some...
carbon offsets, according to today's Times Online , as two searches on Google are the equivalent, CO2-wise, of boiling water for some tea. Now wait, I'm not even ...
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Google Something or Boil Some Water: You Choose
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Googling has a massive carbon footprint
Fudzilla —
... uses multiple data banks at the same time to speed up its search operations, and that a combination of servers, clients, networks and end user PCs all add up to the high CO2 cost of Google's operation. Gartner bean counters claim IT currently accounts for around 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, and Dr Wissner-Gross is trying to lend a helping hand, launching a site called co2stats.com, which should help tech companies identify energy inefficient aspects of their operations. More here .
Report: One Google search results in 7g CO2
DV Hardware —
... Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims a typical search query on Google produces about 7g CO2. His study suggests two Google searches on a desktop PC produces 14g of CO2, which is roughly the equivalent of boiling an electric kettle. ...
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