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(12,167 posts)from happening in the first place, with its huge electrical and water consumption. Stats vary all over the place on that, but for certain it's several times what an old-fashioned pre-AI search consumed. Somewhere I saw something like a pint of water consumed per AI search (unfortunately that source didn't say anything about electricity). I've read that AI searches vary widely too on their resource consumption..
The Web mode in Google, AFAIK, does only an old-fashioned pre-Zinjanthropus-style search. The problem is turning Web mode on before the search. I haven't figured that out except to leave a tab or page up that is in Web mode already to use for subsequent searches.
But often I like to shut my browser down completely when it gets slow, so bye bye that Web mode tab or page.
If I don't have such a page or tab up, I don't know, maybe search on something like "A" and maybe it won't eat up too many resources.
But I'm probably an idiot to care. I live in a country where most people expect the indoors temperature to be within half a degree of perfect and routinely will jump into their SUVs or monster pickup trucks to buy $15 of groceries,.and are totally befuddled and baffled that anyone sees anything wrong about this.
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