Blackle - environmentally friendly Google

[MrRobin]

Ugh. It hurts my eyes. It looks like someone's 'My first website'

[KentPhilip]

Looks dismal

Can't Google come up with anything better?

[gingerjedi]

Black... Black... you lock me in the cellar and feed me pins, where shall we sleep tonight Mother? In Father's grave?, My eyes! My eyes are pies, and yours are lies, ALL LIES!, I am a fly, trapped in a bottle of SHADOWS! Bzzzzzz..., and What's for tea, Mother? Maggots on toast?.
Roger the painter

I guess you had to be there.

[wendigo100]

Are we allowed to call it "black"?

[dotnetter]

But surely LCD monitors have the backlight on all the time? In order to display black it just shifts more little bits of LC to block the light doesn’t it?

It’s a bit like closing the curtains and pretending the sun stops burning.

lol ! yeah course.

[gingerjedi]

But surely LCD monitors have the backlight on all the time? In order to display black it just shifts more little bits of LC to block the light doesn’t it?

It’s a bit like closing the curtains and pretending the sun stops burning.

[richard-af]

I wonder how many bizillion kilowatt hours will be burned as millions use Google to find out about Blackle?

[Xenophon]

Will we get an environmentally-friendly black CUK? Would make a change...

[n5gooner]

cool

[thunderlizard]

& more importantly, it looks better!

[Moose423956]

Google have created a black version of it's search engine named Blackle, that works the exact same way as the original version but uses less power.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002