Blackle: Google Gone Green
Black is the new Goog
Blackle.com, the all-black, green Google.
Studies have revealed that an all-white website uses more energy than an all-black website. The energy use is small, and the difference minuscule, but if you apply it to a mega-high-traffic site, like Google, for example, the numbers add up. With this in mind, Tony Heap created Blackle in 2007, an all-black version of the Google search engine. Blackle uses the same searching algorithm and hardware as Google and, according to the site, has saved over 1,111,000 watt hours as of today.
The makers of Blackle don’t expect to change the world with the energy they save, but they do hope to bring attention to the need to conserve energy and the fact that every little bit helps. It’s a pretty cool idea, anyway. To show my support, I’ll be switching my Google bookmarks to Blackle. Why not?
For more info on Blackle, here’s a blog with a good entry on the topic.
