say google has 450k servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform) so has 11m hours of commodity x86 time a

say google has 450k servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform) so has 11m hours of commodity x86 time a day. if google gets 2937m queries a day (http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709 http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...) then each query would have to do 13secs of work to be equivalent. of course this is total nonsense (in many ways), just wondered how it would compare.