Blackle Search Engine Helps Save The Environment

My wife showed me this new search engine by Googlethat helps save power by having a black background instead of the origional white one. Blackle gets the same search results as Google would so nothing is changed. What cool about using this search engine is that it has a counter underneath where they measure the Watts save by switching to black.

I have become obsesed with making my Dell laptop run as efficiently as possible by deleting unnecessary files and stuff. After learning about Blackle I decided to change my energy wasting Windows XP picture background with just a plain Black one. I'm not sure how much doing that will actually save me, but it all helps. The best thing to do regardless, is to shut down your computers at night, or at least have it go to standby when not in use.

Check out Blackle and let me know what you think. Oh, and can anyone tell me how to get Blackle into the Internet Explorer search toolbar?

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Lauren said:

Yeah, I found out about Blackle yesterday. I hope more people make the change.

Posted at 01:59 PM, on July 29 2007

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joneri said:

I also got obsessed by black after I started using blackle. I even chose a black template for my blog. Have you tried blackify? A toolbar button that makes the web page change to black.

Posted at 02:30 PM, on July 31 2007

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joneri said:

Blackify
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Posted at 02:32 PM, on July 31 2007

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Jyle said:

Thanks for the information I will check Blackify out.

Posted at 03:19 AM, on August 4 2007

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Seth said:

I prefer using www.Darkoogle.com as their text are green which reduce eye strain. So instead of saving energy from our monitor, it also save our user's eye energy.

Posted at 08:50 AM, on August 4 2007

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Jyle said:

Thanks for the info. The eye sore was becoming a problem but Darkoogle seems to help.

Posted at 01:08 PM, on August 4 2007

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Save the planet : Search Green said:

One thing : setting a black background may use more energy !

I prefer using Greenle.

http://greenle.info

Posted at 01:15 AM, on September 8 2007

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geminihunter said:

There are around 25 different versions of “black google” online. The best one I’ve found is www.cleanblack.com. Cleanblack is the only version that allows you to change the text colors of the google search results. Try it yourself by going to www.cleanblack.com/theme/

Posted at 08:40 AM, on August 15 2008

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Frank said:

There are around 16 different versions of “black google” online. The best one I’ve found is www.cleanblack.com. Cleanblack is the only version that allows you to change the text colors of the google search results. Try it yourself by going to www.cleanblack.com/theme/

Posted at 07:50 AM, on August 17 2008

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Biki said:

There are around 23 different versions of “black google” online. The best one I’ve found is www.cleanblack.com. Cleanblack is the only version that allows you to change the text colors of the google search results. Try it yourself by going to www.cleanblack.com/theme/

Posted at 05:16 AM, on August 25 2008

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