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Blackle: the dark side of Google

(Hindustan Times)

“Have you too been infected by the Blackle bug? Millions of Internet users are logging on to a new search engine, blackle.com — with a black background — to save a wee bit of energy every time they want to search something on the net.

Search giant Google has customised blackle.com which means that everytime you search on blackle.com, you are using Google’s search prowess.

The argument is simple: An all-white background uses more energy to display than a black background. Now if Google, which gets gets 200 million queries a day, turns its background black, some amount of energy will be saved. So, Blackle is Google gone black. “

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