Blackle – Black Google Equals Greener Google?
Ciaran Moore - August 9, 2007
Do you wish you were doing a little more to help the environment? Here’s an alternative to the regular white homepage of Google. Its a black google page!
The idea behind it is that a black page background will use less electricity than a white one. So mathematically speaking, if lots of people were to use blackle.com as their homepage instead of the default google homepage, a lot of eletricity could be saved, ok maybe not a lot but every little helps, right?
Its a good first step I guess, but the page could do with some extras such as the “advanced search” link etc.
Check it out for yourself at www.blackle.com
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August 14th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I fully approve of the energy-saving priciple of ‘Blackle’ but, until I can have the ‘advanced search’ and ‘uk only’ options, I would like to revert to Google. Please explain to me how I can do this.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:54 am
I also approve of the energy saving concept of a black Google. But I think there is a better site than Blackle. Its called Greenback Search, which has eco-friendly colors. However, as another step to help the environment, they are donating a big part of their revenue from searches on their site in order to purchase carbon offsets and reduce carbon imprint. You can check out their site http://www.greenbacksearch.com/ for more information and some other nice features as well.