GOOGLE - The harmful search engine for earth!!!

Environmental experts warned that browsing a website like Google could cause as much damage to the environment by generating more carbon dioxide as the aviation industry.
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate the same amount of harmful carbon dioxide as boiling an electric kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research quoted Sunday.If you do a Google search once, it generates about seven grams of carbon dioxide -- about one half of boiling a kettle of water for tea, which produces about 15 grams.
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University, has calculated how much a single visit to a website produces CO2. It produces about 0.02 grams of CO2 for every second they are viewed. If the site has more multimedia features, then it will produce even more CO2 amounts close to 0.20 grams. "A Google search has a definite environmental impact," says Alex Wissner-Gross, whose research is due out soon.
The newspaper said "Google" is "secretive" about its energy consumption and carbon footprint, and refuses to divulge the locations of its data centres.
"However, with 200 million internet searches estimated globally daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the internet is provoking concern," the newspaper said.A recent report by information technology analysts Gartner said the global IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas - which contribute to global warming - as the airlines industry.
The Google system, which sends search queries to several competing servers that may be thousands of miles apart, "minimizes delays but raises energy consumption".Wissner-Gross has submitted his research for publication by the US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and has set up a website www.co2stats.com (Click here to visit...)
"Google is very efficient but their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy," the physicist said.

But Google said, "We are among the most efficient of all internet search providers."

But just think, had there been no search engine like Google, then more CO2 would have been produced cause people then had to guess website address and waste more time and what Dr. Alex calculated: 0.02 grams of CO2 for every second they are viewed. If the site has more multimedia features, then it will produce even more CO2 amounts close to 0.20 grams... I think CO2 emission would be much more greater in absense of Google like search engines.