Powering a Google Search

Have you ever thought about your websurfing as a contributor to global warming?

clipped from googleblog.blogspot.com a typical search uses “half the energy as boiling a kettle of water” and produces 7 grams of CO2. We thought it would be helpful to explain why this number is *many* times too high. Google is fast — a typical search returns results in less than 0.2 seconds.