Uh-Oh. Blackle Does Not Help Save Energy?
August 22, 2007 by Noel
Filed under Green Living
I have been pretty much of a Blackle convert after I learned about it. I mean, yes, I can help save more energy and I also have come to love the black background.
But I did chance upon this post:
In January 2007, Mark Ontkush, the owner of the ecoIron blog, suggested that a large amount of energy could be saved if Google switched their home page from white to black. The initial savings was estimated to be 3000 Megawatt-hours a year; this was later rounded down to 750 Megawatt-hours, after an error in the calculations was found. At the time, ecoIron was receiving about 100 hits per day. The story was posted on Digg where it rapidly went to #1 on the main page, ultimately receiving over 4,000 Diggs. Tony Heap, the owner of HeapMedia, started the Blackle site shortly after these events.
So now I’m thinking. Could it really be just a scheme of some sort or is Blackle for real?
Oh well. Anyhow, if you’re up to more Blackle-like sites, you can check these other ones out:
- Darkoogle
- Earthle
- GreenerGle
- Greygle
- Google Black
- Jabago
- Ninja
- Power Google
- Searchincolor.com
- Trek Black
[Via eroIron]
[Image from Atomicgirl]
It’s been discussed time and time again, a black search portal offers very little in the way of power saving overall. All this site does is generate revenue for it’s owners which is put to no good use at all.
As an alternative search portal try -
http://www.regrowgle.com
Any profits from using this portal are actually put back into environmental projects to cancel out a portion of energy etc that is consumed.
Hey it’s a start, and every little bit counts in my opinion
There is also the Carbon Neutral Search Engine it uses Google Custom Search but offsets a minimum of 100g of CO2 per search, saving energy and the environment
thanks for the info
Thanks for that i think the blackle concept is well cool. Recently while surfing i also found blackle games; interesting concept: play games and save the world!! lol
I prefer using Darkoogle http://www.darkoogle.com another black Google and is available in over 40 countries http://www.darkoogle.com/international
Best of all its got the ’similar page’ option in the result page like the normal white Google. I use that a lot.
hello
i know a site you can add to your list, its called ecosmartsearch.com it was made by a 13 year old boy!!
its very good, and better than blackle as it has images, shopping, etc!