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Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to
by btown 12y ago
Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.
- rsynnott 12y agoCompared to the power used by the client computers dealing with Google's increasingly heavy search pages? Pretty much nothing.
- smackfu 12y agoThey clearly already have a very extensible framework to give different results page formats depending on the search term.
- McDiesel 12y agoIt appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?
- squigs25 12y agojust add an extra node to their cluster