Bravo to Toby Heap who has created Blackle the energy saving search engine. The principle is that Blackle uses the Google search engine but the search page and results pages are predominantly black, thus saving the energy needed to display them.
Blackle appeared as a result of a blog posting which menori.com covered last month. After the original posting several sites appeared like ninja.com all boasting ‘dark’ versions of Google in the name of either stealthy assassins or eco-friendliness.
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Thanks for the mention. Hopefully people will start using this and we can see the energy saved meter take off.
…um, the savings is only for CRT’s (which are on the decline every day).
LCD’s use the same wattage regardless of what is showing on the screen - given that LCD’s are backlit - and in theory draw more current to mask all the light in order to be…black.
(the difference in draw is likely so small that it doesn’t change the draw at the wall plug - but rather gets regulated by a transister on the circuit board)
Blackle where have you gone? Well indeed it does seem to have disappeared. I’ve contacted Toby Heap who put Blackle together to ask him where his variant of the Google search engine has gone.
Sad thing : it doesn’t work. No energy is saved when using a black background.
I prefer using Greenle.
http://greenle.info
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