Google at your peril!

[dickymint]

Apparently a 2 word Google search is the equivalent of boiling a kettle in terms of using energy!!! Well fk me my fingers must be pretty damm quick.

[trumpet600]

Apparently..that sounds like the biggest load of shyte i've heard today, and its unlikely to be surpassed.

[thinfourth2]

Well if that is true if i was to google

"bacon sandwich juggling flying hamster death monster fart head"

The world would explode

[chris watton]

I just heard that too, on the politically correct socialist luvvies tea party that is the Andrew Marr show. Good Lord!

[Westy Pre-Lit]

GOOD!!!!!!!

Todays task will be to spend all day Googling.

[Kinky]

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

[dickymint]

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

STAND AWAY FROM YOUR PC!

[s.m.h.]

dickymint said:

Apparently a 2 word Google search is the equivalent of boiling a kettle in terms of using energy!!! Well fk me my fingers must be pretty damm quick.

Was the search for "PG TIPS"?

[CivicMan]

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

Ha ha! Just tried it - 2.7 BILLION results!

[Neil_H]

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

AKA Dividing by zero

[SimonV8ster]

Guam said:

CivicMan said:

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

Ha ha! Just tried it - 2.7 BILLION results!

Blimey what would happen if lots of people did that at the same time would their server melt??

How about bang on midday ??

[pikey]

chris watton said:

I just heard that too, on the politically correct socialist luvvies tea party that is the Andrew Marr show. Good Lord!

So someone said that, on TV, in all seriousness???

Sounds like complaint material to me!

[Scott328i]

SimonV8ster said:

Guam said:

CivicMan said:

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

Ha ha! Just tried it - 2.7 BILLION results!

Blimey what would happen if lots of people did that at the same time would their server melt??

How about bang on midday ??

I am there

[GT4 Baz]

http://www.endoftheinternet.com/ ?

[bigandclever]

I think the problem is that Google are secretive about the amount of energy their data centres use (the number and location of which they're also secretive about) and so it's easy to just have nested assumptions and come up with a figure below, above or exactly spot-on the truth. And people are stupid so "a cup of coffee", "a boiled kettle" or a "a bath" are easier to 'understand'.

[mackie1]

They use large quantities (c450,000) of commodity machines in their data centres so I doubt their electricity bill is small but if you divide that by the number of serviced requests I imagine the energy consumption per search is very low indeed. They will get many thousands of hits per minute.

[FourWheelDrift]

dickymint said:

Apparently a 2 word Google search is the equivalent of boiling a kettle in terms of using energy!!! Well fk me my fingers must be pretty damm quick.

chris watton said:

I just heard that too, on the politically correct socialist luvvies tea party that is the Andrew Marr show. Good Lord!

How did they find out, did they Google it?

[dickymint]

SimonV8ster said:

Guam said:

CivicMan said:

Kinky said:

I've had told from good authority that should you google google, then the internet will end

Ha ha! Just tried it - 2.7 BILLION results!

Blimey what would happen if lots of people did that at the same time would their server melt??

How about bang on midday ??

8 minutes to meltdown

[Glassman]

what?

Surely, the energy used to generate such articles is the problem

[mft]

I presume this is the article: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_...

What a f*cking awful article - total sloppy journalism. Makes me so angry I can't even be bothered to fisk it, beyond saying that Google services over 2 Billion searches every day, so they're at least a factor of ten out.