???black google saves 750 megawatt-hours a year???
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- Kat05
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hi everyone!
i just heard about a new search site called www.blackle.com . its searches are powered by google costum search and the site is displayed on a black background.
it is based on the idea that a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.
in january 2007 a blog post titled "black google would save 750 megawatt-hours a year", to be read here: www.microtech.doe.gov/EnergyStar/info.htm#display " proposed the theory that a black version of the google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine.
read for yourself and if you like the idea support blackle!! i think its cool!
greetings, kat - Last Edit: 16 years 10 months ago by .
- Kat05 / QA Lead & Support / Germany
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- GollumX
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hehehe ... this scam earns the Aussie company Heap Media millions.
Well.. not really a scam... just facts that are no longer relevant for most users. It saved energy during the days of CRT monitors... but now most people have LCD's.
I should really get some links to support my post. Will find some later
OK update:
There are a whole host of copycats:
www.blaxel.com/
www.blackoogle.us/
www.blackoogle.co.uk/
And the official response from Google:
googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html - Last Edit: 16 years 10 months ago by GollumX.
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- Kat05
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hi gollum!
happy to get your post as first answer, you are right, there is another side to this story.
really interesting the links you posted, i should have seen that before.
the fact that black backgrounds might actually INcrease energy use on certain screens would make the whole idea really useless.
i should think of other ideas of saving energy while spending time online, first one should be to switch the tv off thats running
anyways, i changed the "thumbs up" to "question mark" and removed the company name
greetings, kat - Kat05 / QA Lead & Support / Germany
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I am optimistic that Nuclear Fusion energy will be available in the not to distant future so when that happens, energy waste is kind of a redundant subject
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