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
I had heard of blackle.com (the eco friendly version of google), but now they have launched blackle games i dunno if any energy is saved, but atleast it doesnt hurt the eye, lol
I’m using at the moment BLACKOOGLE, which is similar to blackle but offers a lot more functionality like image search, youtube search, mail access, etc. And looks nicer too, give it a try!
US
http://www.blackoogle.us
UK
http://www.blackoogle.co.uk
bye
The black screen only has benefit if viewed on CRTs, so plasmas and flat screens don’t benefit in the same way.
Aswellas reducing emissions important then to offset emissions caused: http://www.searchgreener.com is a green search engine doing just that.
Use it for your daily searching, it gives you Google with reduced emissions and uses funds generated to buy carbon offsets - a carbon neutral search engine to build into your everyday routine.
There seems to be more and more of these energy saving search engines all the time. This is great for the planet. I am wondering if all of those who own and promote these search engines would be willing to donate all of the proceeds of their engines to green peace? Who is in? This seems like a good place to get it started. You can count me in with hugagoogle, how about you blackle and earthle and whoever else is out there, are you going to take my challenge.
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