An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format. Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor! mjo] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes. Therefore Bloogle is an effort to save this energy by using the exact same search engine powered by google but using a black background. Thus using this Black google helps save energy in this time of energy scarcity. Please use Bloogle as your home page and help promote the site to make the world a greener place for everyone. Site : http://www.bloogle1.com Source : http://www.bloogle1.com/about.htm
actually good that you are using Google Custom search, But that was a nice sweet explanation on saving power. I will be using the site for that.
Lol, kudos for the sweet explanation to go with the site. I don't search with Google in general but I'd be more than willing to use Bloogle instead when I have the urge or need. Its sad how much difference a couple hex codes can do.
1. This doesn't save watts on LCD's, its the same thing. 2. http://blackle.com/ has been around for ages 3. Good effort though.
Good catch Jeffler. I retract my original comment about it being ingenious. You stole the idea from http://blackle.com. Actually, it was still an ingenious idea - just not yours.
You got yourself a pretty good point there, try making a press release or something, You'll have success with this post! Eco-friendly, is the new "omfg!" of the century!
Yeah, people already use Blackle. I don't like these in that I can't get Gmail or Google Calendar or Analytics on them from the homepage. I don't think they actually save that much energy anyways.
That is some nice and unique thing. Couldn't understand the math thing but I believe in you. Best of luck with the black google.
about a year back i read an article on a tech magazine about Google's black version to save lot of energy. bUt heard google officially launching one....