An energy efficient Google search site?
March 26, 2008 – 3:05 pmThe next time you want to search for something on the web, try going to ‘www.blackle.com’ instead of your usual search engine.
The page you get looks remarkably like Google, and queries you type in are fed through to Google, but there’s one obvious difference. Instead of the generous amount of white space which has characterised Google’s home page since its 1998 launch, the page is mostly black.
Heap Media, the Australian company behind Blackle, claim that black pixels take less power than white and so using their search saves energy. They believe that small things matter when it comes to reducing our energy use, limiting our C02 output and reducing the likely extent of global warming as a result of human activity.
Read the full article on billblog or on the BBC website
See also darkoogle.com
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