Blackle Disproven

Tah-daaah!

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Sustainable Search said...
Blackle is a good idea, but... it doesn't work :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Syp4uzvcSoI prefer using Greenle
November 14, 2007 11:34 PM "

Thank you to Sustainable Search for leaving this comment. The link left here leads to a short video in which a man attempts to dispel the blackle energy-saving phenomenon with an energy-measuring device. He measures the amount of power a flat-panel monitor uses to display the black vs. white googles. Check it out!

If I had to guess, I'd say he's correct.

Blackle - The Black Google

In a creative or nonchalant manner, blackle.com has given a creative update to Google search! I was very impressed to see a site put a nice spin on something so mainstream as Google. Many of us like the black better than the white, and the results produced by this engine are the same as the white Google. You may find this hard to read, but.... consider what blackle has to say on it's about page:

"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"

Is that ridiculous or what?! If you load up blackle.com, it will actually show you the number of Watt hours of electricity people have saved by using the black google instead of the normal, white google. At the time I am writing this post, Blackle claims to have saved "295,885.802 Watt hours." Amazing!

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