Aug 10th, 2007
Black Google
The new black search engine, powered by Google and designed to save energy by cutting out the majority of the light behind the screen. It’s interesting that it was inspired by a random blogger who proposed the theory back in January of this year.
So far it seems that if you want to search images, or if you’re in the middle of a search and decide you want to switch over to regular-ass Google for any reason without losing your search, then you’re out of luck and you’ll have to just go to Google and start over. But for straight text searches, the all-black is nice and the text is surprisingly easy to read.
When you consider how many people use Google, and how many of those users have Google set as their home page, you can imagine how much energy can be saved by going Black. In fact, every time Blackle loads, you’re notified of exactly how much energy has been saved since its inception.
Read more about it here.
From what I’ve read about it, it isn’t going to make much of a difference I’m afraid.
If you’re using a crt monitor then there is a noticable reduction in the power used but when using a modern tft lcd screen the resulting reduction is negliable.
I guess there must still plenty of computers still using crt monitors out there, but I’d guess there’re more likely to be using in business apllications (like stock control etc.) rather than for web browsing.
Blackle is more speculation than anything.
While this is obviously a biased source, it’s worth a read: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html
When I saw this post I was suprised because I happened to stumble across another website, that is basically the exact same thing today.
http://black-google.blogspot.com/
Whether or not it actually works is debatable but it sort of looks cool.
“regular-ass google” i like that.
I think we also should cut down on energy consumption through computer rendering. So away with all those fancy full screen flash video sites and large images and complex coding! Away with large bandwidth sites! Also let’s conserve by not posting anything that’s already on another site. The same info on the web once is enough. Let’s condense the internet to its bare black minimum and save the planet.
Like a black screen is going to make that much of a diffrence? How about riding bikes instead of cars.