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www.pcworld.com — PC World: The carbon footprint of a search query is nowhere near the estimate concluded by a Harvard academic, Google said late Sunday. British newspaper The Sunday Times published a story on Sunday with results from a study conducted by Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist who estimates a Google ...
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Google sans eco-guilt, or how web research reduces carbon emissions
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... Madrigal calculates that Google’s responsible for just 0.2 or 0.006 percent of the U.S. carbon footprint, depending on what numbers you use (Google quickly questioned the original numbers about its own carbon footprint; the scientists who put out the original numbers also specified that their numbers were calculated ...
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