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Wednesday 21 November 2012

What is better Google or blackle?


What is better Google or blackle?





"Blackle is a website that utilizes a customized Google search bar. The website asserts that it is exactly like Google except that it uses a black background instead of a light colored background. This first claim is questionable.

The second claim is that a computer monitor requires more energy to display a white pixel than a black pixel. This amount of energy is minimal, as admitted by the Blackle authors. They insist that there would be significant energy savings if all the millions of screens that look at Google every day used Blackle instead.


Firstly, color is not the only difference between Google and Blackle. Any search through Blackle uses Blackle'sservers before querying Google's servers. That means a little extra bit of bytes being transferred. It's not much, but neither is the energy savings.


Secondly, home studies suggest thatLCD monitors have a negligible power savings between displaying dark screens or light screens. I say negligible because the variance from one monitor to another is a wider spread of kilowatt-hours than the savings on any particular monitor."

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