Jahil Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Blackle - Black Version of Google One interesting thing - When Microsoft is struggling to cope up with Google in the field of search Google is beating it every time with unimaginable finding.. Hats off to people in Googleplex. Blackle is nothing but a black version of google. "A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black. In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com According to Blackle's homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time. Blackle.com Use this as your home page or default search engine. So here's your site : http://www.blackle.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonthai Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 books are printed black on white, most probably white printing on a dirty paper would be cheaper - but not well readable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayo Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 NICE ONE!!! Uses the google search engine so the search is identical. I like it! Fits in nicely with the colour schemes I use! Good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autonomous_unit Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Of course the original estimates are based on some questionable assumptions about the power efficiency of an average CRT monitor. An LCD monitor does not use less power to display black pixels, but rather the screen heats up a bit more while absorbing all the light that the backlight is pumping out, instead of letting it shine out into the room... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpcoe Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 And, here I thought this topic would be about an Ebonics version of Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbk Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 And, here I thought this topic would be about an Ebonics version of Google. Me too Anyway, for those who like black color schemes, firefox has themes of various colors, black included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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