Came across this ‘energy-saving’ site today. Its called Blackle aka Black Google. It basically shows the google home page with a black background.
The purpose of this site: It has been shown through research that a screen with white background consumes more power that black background. So a website such as google with its massive search-related queries will consume a big amount of energy. Blackle is a result of converting google’s white background to black one so that it can save tons of energy!!
more here http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html
Interesting one, huh! But questions remain: What will happen to the readability? How am I supposed to see my site24×7 google ads on a black screen?
July 6, 2007 at 12:00 pm
See http://blacklys.com – The Black Google
They have a firefox Search Extension too.. Interesting..
July 21, 2007 at 6:06 am
nice one David. Thnx for the link
December 28, 2007 at 2:01 am
There is also the Carbon Neutral Search Engine, they offset each search by 100g of CO2 … (or black background for CRT monitors)
February 12, 2008 at 9:18 am
Thanks for that i think the blackle concept is well cool. Recently while surfing i also found blackle games; interesting concept: play games and save the world!! lol
August 17, 2008 at 5:16 pm
There are around 17 different versions of “black google” online. The best one I’ve found is http://www.cleanblack.com. Cleanblack is the only version that allows you to change the text colors of the google search results. Try it yourself by going to http://www.cleanblack.com/theme/