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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 10:47    Post subject: Blackle.com
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When your pc screen is all white (like a word page, for example), your
computer comsuption is about 74 Watt. When it's all black, the average ist
about 54 Watt.
Because of this, a few month ago, Mark Ontlush wrote an article about
the amount of energy that could be saved if Google had a black background
instead of white.
Considering the high popularity of the website, according to Mark, the
energy savings would be about 750 MW-Hour per year.
Answering to this post, Google created a black version of it's search
engine named Blackle.com ( http://blackle.com ), that works the exact same
way as the original version but uses less power.
Pass it on to friends, family and discussion list...let's all give our
support to Blackle!!


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 12:14    Post subject:
lol thats pretty cool but if you search for something with google and search for the same thing with blackle the results dont appear to be exactly the same ...


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 12:32    Post subject:
One would think that they could just implement a simple thing called STYLESHEET SELECTOR on their regular domain... Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 12:45    Post subject:
probably is its harder to see light text on dark backgrounds, as opposed to dark on light. ill stick with regular google thanks.

this just smacks of racial propaganda i say!!... ive had it with all this white bashing, someone should send him a horses head or something, and tell him to sod off!


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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 13:16    Post subject:
Parallax_ wrote:
One would think that they could just implement a simple thing called STYLESHEET SELECTOR on their regular domain... Rolling Eyes


i thought the same, because blackle has none of the other search-functions google offers (like image search and the like...)
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PostPosted: Wed, 25th Jul 2007 14:23    Post subject:
This website was not at all created by google but by Heap Media Australia and is simply using google custom search function, being a copy of already existing websites like http://www.searchincolor.com/
What you quoted is simply misleading and is either a marketing trick from Heap Media Australia's lying department (i am pretty sure they receive money for visitors launching a google search and displaying its ads) or made of candid ignorance.

cf. http://google.com/coop/cse/

n.b.: LCD screens don't use more watts for displaying white pages... In this it is even more of a scam.
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