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Are We Killing The Planet One Google Search At A Time?

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:21:18 +0000

Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) posits that a single Google search generates 7g of CO2, versus around 15g for a tea kettle - something he calls a “definite environmental impact.”

That sounds bad, right?

Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously.

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:19:55 +0000

Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7. It’s about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can’t wait for hordes of customers to start asking if they somehow missed Windows 1 through 6. Read more at TechCrunch

knol - a unit of knowledge

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:17 +0000

Knol pages are “meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read”, according to Manber. The term knol, which Google defines as a “unit of knowledge”,refers to both the project and an article in the project. Several experts see Knol as Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia, while others point out the differences between the projects. Read more about Knol

Google Now Crawling And Indexing Flash Content

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:00:17 +0000

Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds to help get search engines to index and rank their Flash pages. Read more about Google crawling flash content.