Blackle

Good. But change it to Blackle.

http://blackle.com/

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How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year 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. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

 

 

 

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I have only one issue with it. It applies only to CRT monitors at the moment, which obviously are being slowly phased out throughout the world. LCD monitors always have the backlight turned on, which is appropriately covered by LCD layers to produce various colours, black included. This plus the fact that LCDs use much less power than the old CRT monitors tells us to treat blackle's claims rather as wild marketing. There are rumours of new versions of monitor-LCD technologies, allowing for switching the inactive parts of the image completely off, eliminating contrast problems altogether.

Of course, another interesting approach would be to say that it may save money in poor families where even a CRT monitor is a great expense, but then again taking into account the numbers stated, the savings would be mostly insignificant.

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Blackle is good and fast, since the search is ofcourse powered by google. It also saves power.. But it doesnot recommend search text like google. It only stores your past searches, but doesnto recommend any. In that case google rocks. -reply by Pradnya

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