Save your mobile phones’s battery while your searching the web – Blackle is the power-saving Google
By Will Park on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 9:01 PM PST In Announcements, General, Services
Forget Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM)’s battery-saving tech patents for 3G chipsets, we’ve got a better, home-grown tech to save your mobile phone’s electrical juice. Next time you’re surfing the web and you find the need to hit up Google (NSDQ: GOOG), try Blackle instead. Yea, we know, Google is the end-all-be-all for internet search, but Google’s all-white background can be terribly taxing on your battery – it takes a good bit of charge to display all that white on your mobile’s screen. Blackle’s search engine does the same thing, but with an all-black background (seriously, it’s just Google with a “Black” theme) – keeping some of your battery’s precious electrons firmly planted on those lithium ions.
Of course, Blackle will also extend your laptop’s battery uptime so make sure to bookmark Blackle.com on your computer and your handset.
am i wrong here or wouldn’t this make a difference at all, becasue the screen’s backlighting is on regardless of color? don’t lcd screens just “block” the light coming from the lamp?
I think it would actually increase consumption on an LCD as more energy is used to display a black pixel than a white one.
Of course, LCDs use a lot less energy than CRTs in the first place anyway.
I find the other version Darkoogle.com is more easier to read since they uses green text just like the old days. Green text are more easy for our eyes and reduce eye strain.
There is another search engine like blackle called the Carbon Neutral Search Engine but it offsets a minimum of 100g of CO2 per search. The more searches the more carbon offset.
There are around 18 different versions of black google online. The best one Ive found is http://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 http://www.cleanblack.com/theme/