Is your homepage set to google?

[Daily]

Good. But change it to Blackle.

http://blackle.com/

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

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

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.

 

[SlaveOfTheBeast]

This is hilarious.

 

[Eric]

lulz. i r now s4ving wa7t hower yayz

 

[OldFinn]

Hahahahah.
I prefer Google,

thank you very much

 

[sorcey]

Rofl That is quite funny.

 

[Cheeter]

Lame

 

[°Password°]

i am still gonna use google, i like that blackle is black and stuff, but i hate that it doesn't have like image search. if it did i would use it.

 

[kingnick0694]

*Changed*

 

[$cared]

lol i like the black background R0FL

 

[joewnn]

feels better on my eyes thanks

 

[heymish]

you guys need to take Global warming and the preservation of energy more seriously..

Changed

 

[d0pe b0i]

lol! that makes me laugh. i think ill try to find a more birght less energy efficient homepage than google rofl!

 

[superman1478]

I prefer the black, but it doesn't have as many options as google.

 

[Yakov]

*changed* was google, now this.

 

[Shredderbeam]

Good. But change it to Blackle.

http://blackle.com/

Done and done.

 

[stefan1596]

Nice, I think I'll change it too. I read the quote and I realised it is worth changing my lovely Google Homepage...

 

[Cruel__Machine]

And if I want to search google images, video, maps, email, etc... I just have to go back to google. So it'll save very little energy at the expense of my time.
Not to mention you can't view cached and similar pages. Pointless.

 

[Daily]

Not everyone uses google for EVERYTHING.

 

[masterkiller]

you guys need to take Global warming and the preservation of energy more seriously..

Changed

I and 1000s of others will when you prove to me what global warming truely is.

 

[°Password°]

Cruel__Machine is completely right.