Blackle

Blackle (of English. Black = black and google) is a modified version of the Internet search engine Google in which the search items are shown with white letters on black background. This deviation from the normal version to save power for the computer monitor by less effort. It is operated by Heap Media Australia page and has been available since January 2007.

Energy savings

Basis of the assumption that a "black " version of Google save electricity, is an Energy Star - study, according to which a CRT screen, which shows a black area, consumes 59 watts of power, while 74 watts are needed for the presentation of a white screen. According to the company the idea to set up Blackle came through the calculation in a blog, which Google could face the current state annually save 750 megawatt-hours of energy. In contrast, no power saving can be found in LCDs. Because OLEDs do not require backlighting, here vmtl again. Savings available.

Scope of search

Since Blackle is not operated by Google Inc., the functions over Google is very limited and only includes text search, but no advanced scan settings or image search. The German version of " Blackoogle " provides these services but at already. A special feature of the page is a container positioned below the search input window counter, which indicates the statistically calculated amount of current that was saved since commissioning of the page.