Comments on: Using Google as a Spell Checker

By: Bony Delicious

Bony Delicious — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:25:15 +0000

Google is boiling 1-2 cups water during every search?! That sounds like the most eco-friendly thing a company could do! Boiling water is one of the best ways to purify water in third-world countries. Google must be the only company I can think of that is helping poor, starving children in Africa.

And speaking of things that are not eco-friendly, do you realize how many trees are killed each year to make paper dictionaries?! The number is so horrible, I can’t even bear to think of it.

If left between a choice of using Google for spell-check (and helping African children get clean drinking water) or searching through a paper dictionary (and thus killing endangered species in South American rain-forests), I’m going to choose Google!

By: PIPA

PIPA — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:01:54 +0000

Using Google as a spell checker is one of the most uneco-friendly things you can do!

Each Google search apparently uses enough energy to boil 1-2 kettles of water as their super-fast servers use enormous amounts of energy!

Use your local spell checker; e.g. I am using Ms Word right now, or use a dictionary installed on your computer or if you use the Firefox browser, there are free dictionary add-ons in a number of languages you can use when writing webmail or filling in forms, posting replys, etc…

In the past, I used Google to check spellings as I also feel that spelling correctly is very important, but there are many more energy efficient ways of doing it.

Changing unconscious bad habits make a difference.

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