Goggle Goes Off-Line
- Posted by Avatar on March 13th, 2008 filed in Information, News
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For an hour that is and only in their US site, which is their way of supporting Earth Hour where everybody was encouraged to turn out the lights for a complete hour on the 29th of March 2008. The move was seen by many as a truly earth-friendly act for it did save on some electricity (Web Servers, Storage systems and other IT support hardware consume a ton of electricity). For a company as big as Google, an hour of lost revenue from advertising and other internet based services amounts to a lot of money (they got to save some money on electricity though which could offset their losses). Earth hour was initiated by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Sydney, Australia to raise their voice regarding global warming. The movement began with one city and now enjoins a total of 200 cities along with several civic groups, businesses, governments and individuals.