Lovers of the achromatic color of maximum darkness, be acquainted to your new search engine!
A new website has turned Google's white screen black in a bid to do its bit for the environment by saving energy.
Blackle, a customised version of Google's search engine, is based on claims that monitors need more power to display a light screen than a dark one.
The idea was inspired by a post on the ecoIron blog in January which claimed that a black Google would save 750 megawatt hours a year worldwide given the popularity of the search engine.
However critics are unsure about the energy savings and some say that clarity is lost because black web pages are harder to read.
Toby Heap, of Australian company Heap Media which runs Blackle, said in his blog: 'We believe there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up.'
Sian Berry of the Green Party said the energy saved was equivalent to 750,000 kettles being boiled for an hour. She said: 'If you have the old style of chunky monitor, having most of the screen black does reduce the amount of energy used.
'But if you have got a flat screen it won't make any difference.'
Google said Blackle was independent of it although it does allow people to set up customised search engines.
It added: 'This is one example of the ways in which people can use Google's technology in innovative ways.'
- retrieved from metro.co.uk
I already tried to use this one. Somehow, it yielded the same search results as with Google. But the site could throttle your searches since it lacks features of the conventional Google, such as the 'Cached' and 'Similar Pages' options.
I was spawned in the same year Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown, and on the same day the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly met for the first time.
I am currently in college, taking up Bachelor of Arts Major in Economics and Bachelor of Science in Commerce Major in Advertising Management. I hold two majors, ergo the academic bane I will be experiencing is doubled. But so far, I have not yet swooned, thank God.
I am a control freak. 'Nuff said.
My usual McDonald's meal is comprised of Quarter Pounder, large fries and Coke, extra gravy and vanilla milkshake.
It is in my nature to assume responsibility. I often contemplate about the complexity of life.
I tend to shrink from social contacts and become preoccupied with my own thoughts. I often isolate myself from the pool. Don't get me wrong though. I am not deprived of friends; in fact, I have a bunch of good chums. It is always quality over quantity for me. I don't go for braggy and ostentatious people; I loathe them.
I am not really adept in writing so pardon my tense inconsistencies of verbs, wrong usage of conjunctions and preposition, incorrect separation of paragraphs, faulty usage of colons and semi-colons, et cetera.
Respect begets respect. You're free to judge and read. But please observe proper netiquette - internet etiquette.
merry christmas! 
Merry Christmas! and best wishes for the New Year.
Tnx for dropping by, Ken. have a blessed Xmas
nakiraan..
tnx for visiting my site. cheers!
dumaan…
great blog you got here. mind if i include you in my sparks?
tnx sa pagdaan sa blog ko at sa comment. link kita ha, cool blog mo e. 
hello.. daan lng..
just passing by!
blog hopping
hi there! musta na? tagal na last contact natin. ingats!
whew! nice blog!
bloghop.,
tanx for droppin’ .. 
i hate you. san ka galing ha? hmpft. haha
Lengthy entries. But brilliantly put.
dropped by. Nice pics there 
Auz din brods. nice entries
hoi! =p
black?! that’s racist!
It should be Google goes… african american.
Lololol.
Kidding. :p
Posted by benj at August 15, 2007, 1:56 am