Due to a demand from energy conscious users, Google have created a new black screen version of their site called Blackle on www.blackle.com. If everybody used it instead of the white version, it is estimated that 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
More to the point, it will only save energy if your monitor is a CRT. If your have an LCD (flatscreen) then it doesn’t save energy (and may actually use slightly more).
Even with a black screen, a CRT uses far more energy than does an LCD.
i like the blackle concept!!!! recently while surfing i also found Blackle games; interesting concept: play games and save the world!!. WHat we really need to do is to stop being lazy and actually do our own work and reduce using machinery and wasting resources.
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!
Here is an *unaltered* screen capture I made due to a technical glitch (either with IE7 or with Google????) after running Webroot's Window Washer program:
There are around 25 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/
August 17, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I don't think Google created that site – it looks like a company called Heap Media, using Google's search engine.
August 17, 2007 at 2:17 pm
More to the point, it will only save energy if your monitor is a CRT. If your have an LCD (flatscreen) then it doesn’t save energy (and may actually use slightly more).
Even with a black screen, a CRT uses far more energy than does an LCD.
August 17, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Thank you Will
August 21, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yes its not Google.
Its also a bit of a myth as anonymous pointed out.
February 10, 2008 at 12:36 pm
i like the blackle concept!!!! recently while surfing i also found Blackle games; interesting concept: play games and save the world!!. WHat we really need to do is to stop being lazy and actually do our own work and reduce using machinery and wasting resources.
February 20, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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!
Blackoogle US
Blackoogle UK
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April 1, 2008 at 10:54 am
Here is an *unaltered* screen capture I made due to a technical glitch (either with IE7 or with Google????) after running Webroot's Window Washer program:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fc4tom&s=3
Has anyone else experienced this?
April 1, 2008 at 10:57 am
[IMG]http://i26.tinypic.com/fc4tom.jpg[/IMG]
August 18, 2008 at 6:45 am
There are around 25 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/