Talk:Google uses full load of CPU in Google search tabs left unattended

Relevancy discussion

I didn't place the relevancy notice on this article, but since there's no discussion on its relevancy as of yet, I'll start one. Having read the article, I am in agreement with the person who placed the notice that the article is probably not relevant to the wiki.

At present, no sources in the article support the idea that this issue is as a result of malice by Google, rather than a technical issue. Software bugs are not inherently relevant to the wiki, even if they occur on a large scale. It is also not appropriate to speculate on causes. If we are to present any speculation, then it should be cited and attributed speculation from a notable source - not the speculation of the article's author, or an anonymous commenter. In this case the article is repeating *and endorsing* something which is, without proper evidence, basically just a conspiracy theory (I have since removed the relevant text, but initially it quoted in full a Reddit comment with 3 upvotes saying that Google was probably using people's browsers to perform AI text generation on behalf of other users and, in the voice of the wiki, said that this explanation was what was "most likely happening").

The article also fails to reach the wiki's notability criteria, as all cited sources are essentially just bug reports in reddit threads, and the issue has no proper coverage aside from those. Keith (talk) 01:30, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

I agree. It's speculative and there's practically no coverage about the topic. If it really were essentially hijacking peoples' CPUs through their search tabs, a much bigger deal would be made about it through more reputable sources. Even that one Reddit link had a comment saying it was a bug caused by an animation in particular, not necessarily something intentional on Google's part. — Sojourna (talk) 02:42, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

I'll give @PanSponka another day to respond; after that I will be deleting the article if there's still no response. Sojourna (talk) 00:54, 3 June 2026 (UTC)