If that sounds like an absolutely insane comparison to you, you’re right. But congratulations to Google, for being more environmentally conscious than the dastardly orange juice and cheeseburger industries.
In response to a lot of allegations that its massive data centres emit tons of CO2, Google came up with this little chart to show how much better for the environment they are than totally irrelevant products from mostly irrelevant industries. Starting off with the least irrelevant, one printed newspaper is equal to 850 searches, which might actually come up in some kind of new media vs. print debate. But orange juice? Cheeseburgers? Come on, Google. [TechCrunch]
Malcolm lambe
May 12, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I’ve just had 26 cheeseburgers visit my blog in the past 10 days. All American cheeseburgers I might add. To a two year old post of gruesome photos of Nikki Catsouras – the 18 year old girl that crashed her father’s Porsche into the Toll-Booth. Unbelievable eh? 400,000 unique visitors in 10 days to my cheesy blog. All from Google Search.
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May 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM
What about Flash? How often do you find a browser with some opened but not current tab running a flash application (hey, even paused U-Tube videos) using 100 percent of the CPU … that’s a fair amount of energy. Multiple that my the millions of machine doing it *for little or no reason* and you’d have a fair whack of money to put towards clean power … and also save the emissions on the wasted energy. Busy waits on computers in the 21st century – why?
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