Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Even more on the environmental crime known as "Googling"

Hoaxing Google Search Power Consumption (via conservativegrapevine): "My antenna went up immediately. I've done some implementation research on servers precisely to discover what I could expect in the way of performance and power consumption, and the number appeared grossly inflated." And this: "The reality is that Google and other internet businesses that serve content are among the most efficient consumers of electricity in the context of value delivered that there has ever been on the face of the earth. If you really want to save energy--stop printing newspapers." Good idea I'd say.