The Energy Used in Google Search
Most of us are unaware that each time we surf the internet an enormous amount of energy is used. From the energy of our computers, to the the communications infrastructure linking everything together, to the service providers themselves; each component that assists in the transport or processing of information over the Internet uses energy. Check out the following Infographic to know how much energy is used a Google Search.
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NOw companies are more busy in conserving energy and we should also do something for it.
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Yup, you are right Abhi, everybody has to play a role in Energy conservation
wow, I don’t know about this interesting information. So maybe we should restrict Google search to save energy
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If google changes the background colour to Black then much of Energy can be saved.
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Well but it can’t, it will loose a lot of users if it does so. Many people do not like the black color
This reminds of old stuff which i read online..
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Good share bro
Interesting facts mentioned there
Nice info graphic.
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Glad that you liked it Harihara
I never though about that before =)
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Me too never thought about it bro
Interesting infographic. Until now I had always believed that Google used Nuclear energy to run their search engine
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Nuclear!!!…lol
Maybe they will certainly in the future
Very informative. I guess Google is still much eco-friendlier than other search engines.
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Ya Keeman, it is…Just imaging how much Yahoo or Bing are consuming if Google is this much
nice info man, i am agree with KeeMan…
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Google has jumped to defend the energy efficiency of its search service, after The Times newspaper claimed a single Google search used half the equivalent energy of boiling a kettle of water.Really nice share mate
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Nice stat, and that tell us why should we conserve energy. Big companies using natural power plant to save energy and we should do the same. At least we should use blackle.com instead of Google home page to save some search energy.
I know that it would be a tough task for Google to reduce features to save energy, but why can’t we?
If each time we surf the internet an enormous amount of energy is used, then if we (bloggers) compress our server files.. I think a lot of energy could be saved (although million of blogs are powered by WP and it could be easily compresssed). What say?
Nice infographic
we all need to save energy.
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Nice Info graphic man. thanks
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Thanks for informing me on this topic! I never would have guessed that Google uses so much electricity for each search! That’s enough to power so many homes! It’s nuts!
Every bit counts, like turning of the tap, and the lights and appliances that are not in use. It does scare me a little bit when I see that one Google search consumes enough energy to power a 100Watt lightbulb for 11 seconds. It means I’ll have to start searching less, it seems
That’s scary… 824 years of breathing for Google searches in one month… Wow! Would this mean that Google will go green in the near future?
Another cool and informative infographics from u
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Glad to know you liked it bro
It means a lot to me
Humm, So searching with google is wasting power. I think its better to switch to Bing from here
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Lol man…Bing uses even more energy than Google…
hahahaha
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energy efficient search engine .. haha
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wow, this is crazy! i never though this before.. Search engine turns out to be Power Eater..
Wow, that is fascinating in a morbid kind of way. My blogs do their part since Dreamhost is green.
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Now, this will be a good excuse for analysts or students who use google to do their research.
If you can’t submit your reports in time, it is because you are conserving energy..
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We need to save energy..we are using power planting to preserve energy..I don’t know about others..the search engine needs lots of energy..to surf millions of pages..Google extracts more power than other search engine..