Comments on: Energy-saving search http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/ An inspration feed updated daily by the troublemakers at Language in Common Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:55:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Mitchell http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43022 Mitchell Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:24:40 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43022 I'm with you on this one. Another neat thing you can do if you use an Apple computer is to hit command+option+ctrl+8 and inverse your display. In most programs/websites that should amount to energy savings. If you like the idea but find that a simple inverting leaves you wanting there is a utility program called Nocturne that will give you some better control of darking up that display while retaining usability. http://www.blacktree.com/projects/nocturne.html I’m with you on this one. Another neat thing you can do if you use an Apple computer is to hit command+option+ctrl+8 and inverse your display. In most programs/websites that should amount to energy savings. If you like the idea but find that a simple inverting leaves you wanting there is a utility program called Nocturne that will give you some better control of darking up that display while retaining usability. http://www.blacktree.com/projects/nocturne.html

]]> By: Jeff Caldwell http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43337 Jeff Caldwell Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:01:52 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43337 So I went to "Blackle" like you told me.... The window that opened was maybe 1/3 the size of my entire screen, so everything in the background was still in full color and brightly illuminated. I searched for "Save the world without leaving home" which took 5 seconds, Scrolled through the results, that took 10 seconds, and went to the site I found "http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/virtual_volunteering.html". I maybe spent 15 full seconds at Blackele which was hard to read and I'm not even sure if it works as good as Google. I don't know who Heap Media is and this comes off as self serving. Though there is a cute little counter at the bottom counting down the watts saved which may or may not be accurate. All with a painfully bad pillow embossed logo! Wouldn't we save more energy if we just collectively turned off some lights and stopped wasting time on the internet searching for ways to save the world? So I went to “Blackle” like you told me….

The window that opened was maybe 1/3 the size of my entire screen, so everything in the background was still in full color and brightly illuminated. I searched for “Save the world without leaving home” which took 5 seconds, Scrolled through the results, that took 10 seconds, and went to the site I found “http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/virtual_volunteering.html”.

I maybe spent 15 full seconds at Blackele which was hard to read and I’m not even sure if it works as good as Google. I don’t know who Heap Media is and this comes off as self serving. Though there is a cute little counter at the bottom counting down the watts saved which may or may not be accurate. All with a painfully bad pillow embossed logo!

Wouldn’t we save more energy if we just collectively turned off some lights and stopped wasting time on the internet searching for ways to save the world?

]]> By: josh kamler http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43338 josh kamler Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:09:57 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43338 @jeff Absolutely. Can you please convince everyone to collectively turn off their lights and stop surfing the internet? @jeff
Absolutely. Can you please convince everyone to collectively turn off their lights and stop surfing the internet?

]]> By: Jeff Caldwell http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43347 Jeff Caldwell Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:53:29 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43347 Image how much energy would be saved if internet porn was banned! Image how much energy would be saved if internet porn was banned!

]]> By: Amanda http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43433 Amanda Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:51:08 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-43433 I'm already using <a href="http://www.blaxel.com " rel="nofollow">Blaxel.com</a> another black google to save energy. The text is much easier to see Don't like the blackle text color... too dark... I’m already using Blaxel.com another black google to save energy. The text is much easier to see

Don’t like the blackle text color… too dark…

]]> By: Rich http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-47730 Rich Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:37:28 +0000 http://www.tinygigantic.com/2008/06/09/energy-saving-search/#comment-47730 You're not saving any energy unless you're still using a CRT. LCD displays use more energy to display black (hold a crystal rotated) than white (let the backlight shine through). And that's not Google's; it's some third party using Google's custom search product, and collecting AdSense revenue whenever someone clicks a paid search result. You’re not saving any energy unless you’re still using a CRT. LCD displays use more energy to display black (hold a crystal rotated) than white (let the backlight shine through).

And that’s not Google’s; it’s some third party using Google’s custom search product, and collecting AdSense revenue whenever someone clicks a paid search result.

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