Few months ago I came across an article in which Google tries to refute the results of a research done by Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist. Alex estimated that each Google earch produces around 7 grams of Carbon dioxide. Google estimates the figure around 0.2 grams. John Buckley, managing director of carbonfootprint.com, estimated that it can produce 1 gram to 10 gram or CO2 depending upon the complexity of search.
Well lets go with the numbers as stated by Google. (I don't know if there are updated figures, please let me know if so). Each google search takes around 0.2 grams of CO2, and saves a lot of CO2 by providing you so and so information because you don't have to waste energy in other processes to get the same information. Fine! But what about Google Instant. When a single search converts into more than 10-15 searches. As I know my average length of my search strings should be atleast 15 characters. Even though if it reduces by Google instant by 2-3 characters, I will still end up doing atleast 12 searches instead of one. And we are still not talking about typos and backspaces here. So how Google is thinking on saving our environment. I don't expect them to read this, as there are not many visitors to my blog, but I am sure they will find out this soon and will try to do something about this. And then all Google lovers including me will love it even more!
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