Blackle, a search with google the green (black) way

“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

Yeah, this is quite easy to understand, black is the colour of the… turned off monitor, so requires less energy than white. But I never thought that a “darker” user-interface would be energy saving.

Someone did (several ones, really) and made a black clone of Google, calling it Blackle. I now use this as my home page, even if lacks some details as image or news searching.

This nice initiative began with this post: Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year, where the Mark Ontkush states that Google is shown on some monitor for 550,000 hours a day. Impressive. I think I’ll change some websites right now

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