technewsworld.com - 1/13/2009
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A story in the Sunday Times of London sent Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google public relations machine into an advanced search for answers. The Times reporters wrote about a new Harvard study that examines the energy impact of Web searches. The story's lead paragraph: "Performing two ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 1/12/2009
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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 - 1/12/2009
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technology.timesonline.co.uk —
Click here for how to reduce the footprint
of the Web 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 research. While millions of ...
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Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
youtube.com - 1/8/2009
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youtube.com —
Robert Shiller visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters
to discuss his book "The Subprime Solution: How Today's...
Global Financial Crisis Happened, ...
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Authors@Google: Robert Shiller (video)
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Scientist: CO2 Report Didn't Name Google
Breaking News: CBS News —
... on Sunday generated a firestorm of controversy when a Harvard physicist was identified as saying a typical Google Web search on a desktop computer generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide, making two searches comparable to bringing a tea kettle to boil. "A Google search has a definite environmental impact," Alex Wissner-Gross was quoted as telling the newspaper. Problem is, Wissner-Gross tells TechNewsWorld , his study never singles out or even mentions Google. "For some reason, in their story on the study, The Times had an ax to grind with Google," Wissner-Gross said. ...
CNN is spun right round, baby, right round
RealClimate —
... given to misleading reports about the carbon emissions related to Google searches. Shame he doesn't get to talk about any of that. ...
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Google Earthkiller Story Made Up! —
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So says the very source of the story, according to TechNewsWorld. Ever since the Sunday Times of London reported that Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross had determined that Google's operations produced shocking amounts of greenhouse gas, the ...
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