Google and the flu

swears

preppy-kei
That is pretty cool, goes to show that sometimes the most obvious ideas are the best. Did you ever see that database of searches that got nicked from AOL? Loads of medical enquiry stuff, most of it around the level of "what are spots on my dick?" etc...
 

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
My Google search history probably would make me read like a total loon. But a lot of it was benign searching for info...probably would be hours of entertainment for somethingawful readers either way.

What was hilarious from those lists was how many people's names and addresses could be deduced just from their searches :eek:
 

swears

preppy-kei
"Dr Wissner-Gross's study claims that two Google searches on a desktop computer produces 14g of CO2, which is the roughly the equivalent of boiling an electric kettle. "

Yeah, I read that... seems like the cost of the electricity used to produce that much CO2 would be back-breaking for Google, they can't make that much ad revenue. Sounds fishy to me.
 
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