Blackle is the New Google

There’s no denying it, Blackle is cool.
Blackle is a search engine which delivers Google search results on a black background.
We suppose it’s okay that there’s a “good” reason to justify it – like saving the planet or whatever:
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
But who cares? It’s cool. And Values Australia is still Number 1.
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Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Australian Values, Culture.
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Comment from Seth
Time: 5 August, 2007, 8:44 pm
http://www.Darkoogle.com does the same thing and they uses green text to reduce eye strain. Also they allow search by country
Comment from roger migently
Time: 7 August, 2007, 1:16 pm
Thanks, Seth. Made a special new post for it.




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