I'm so loving this...save energy..save our mother earth...you know how many times you google anyone/anything a day...

and personally, I think BLACK webpages are sexier!

A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.

In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com. According to Blackle's homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up?

Anyhooha...

Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time!

I love this search engine!!! It's much clearer than google, and saves MN at the same time!


Forget google.

Using blackle.com (a spin-off of Google) saves energy because of the darker screen. It may be a little easier for some to read, too.

I always use this search engine. Whenever I'm searching for websites (not pictures or videos) I go to Blackle.com. It's exactly like Google (in fact, it's a Google custom search!) except it saves energy! An eco search engine! How great is that! Plus the black color scheme is a cool change from Google's plain one. (via Blackle.com)