Does your Google search make a difference on your carbon footprint?


The „problem“…

Some people (https://www.welt.de/kmpkt/article196360705/Weltretter-Anleitung-6-Wege-wie-du-in-deinem-Alltag-ganz-leicht-CO2-sparst.html) think that it is best to not use Google, because „they are evil“ or whatnot. And then they come up with the CO2 thing and think that something like https://www.ecosia.org will save their souls. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well. It is.

To get a deeper insight into this, we need numbers. Here they are:

The numbers…

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The conclusion…

You could compensate for all of your annual Google searches by spending less than ten seconds less under the shower. Per year. Which translates to around 10 milliseconds a day, which I was happy to factor in this morning. I am feeling so much better now…

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