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 ...
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 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
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
technewsworld.com - 1/13/2009
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technewsworld.com —
A story in the Sunday Times of London
sent Google's 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: ...
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Harvard Physicist Sets Record Straight on Internet ...
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The Footprint of a Google Query
GoodCleanTech —
... A study by Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross is supposedly the source for the report. However, a newer story at TechNewsWorld aims to set the record straight, claiming the original study never mentioned Google. "For some reason, in their story on the study, the Times had an ax to grind with Google," says Wissner-Gross. The original research apparently focuses on web sites as a whole, determining that loading a web page takes 20 milligrams of carbon dioxide. ...
Harvard physicist says “never mind” on Google energy use
Climate Progress —
Apparently the media got the story wrong [what a shock!].
I had noted that the story clearly was wrong in my post “Ignore the media hype and keep Googling — The energy impact of web searches is very LOW.” Now TechNewsWorld reports:
A Harvard researcher spent much of Monday setting the record straight about his research and how it relates to Google’s energy consumption….
One problem: the study’s author, Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross, says he never mentions Google in the ...
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