So not surprising, a white screen takes more power to display than a black screen, so when Google came up with a black version it was calculated that the energy savings could be 750 Megawatts per year if everyone switched over.
I’ll switch over….if I remember the name blackle. Kind of hard to remember though. Why can’t Google just step up to the plate and switch their main search site to black? Or maybe add black borders to begin with. That should save something, right?
1David said,
July 6, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
See http://blacklys.com – The Black Google
They have a firefox Search Extension too.. Interesting..
Energy Saver said,
December 30, 2007 @ 2:08 am
There is also the Carbon Neutral Search Engine, they offset each search by 100g of CO2 … (or black background for CRT monitors)
syko21 said,
April 26, 2008 @ 4:20 am
it only affects CRT monitors not LCD’s
earth017 said,
August 17, 2008 @ 5:30 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/