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For all who are unfamiliar with “BLACKLE“, its a search engine with Google Custom Search and with a Black Background. The purpose of creating Blackle was to save energy that is consumed during the display on a CRT or LCD screen.

There was a blog post according to which Google could save 750.0 megawatt-hours of energy every year by utilizing display options. Another study said that dark colors consume less energy when they are displayed on the screen. Blackle’s homepage provides a count of the number of megawatt-hours that are supposed to have been saved by using this whole concept. 1,341,291.479 is the number of watt hours being saved till the time of this post.

Blackle Homepage Image

Google’s homepage has a white background which is expected to consume more energy for displaying, so a black google also known as Blackle came to existence with a black background to save energy during displaying. But recent studies and tests by Darren Yates have something different to say.

He tested both Blackle and Google on 27 monitors including 23 LCD monitors in order to find out how these search engines results on monitor power consumptions. The sizes of monitors were different and belong to different manufacturers, and their results are shown below.

Blackle LCD tests Stats

Blackle CRT Tests Stats

So from the final stats Blackle does prove useful in saving energy and is an overall good concept. But the results are from a Google custom search so ultimately they are from Google search results. If you are looking to change your search’s look and Go green then you can definitely try Blackle.
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Stats from: Darrenyates.com.au

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