Power Seach – Save Power While Searching
http://www.talk.itaustralia.org
Power Search is a new search engine that saves power as the colour black uses less power. So instead of using a brightly coloured Google, user power search.
Power search uses the same format and search engine of that Google uses, but instead of being white like Google, Power Search is black.
What are the changes? The only change is that this is not a Google Website, but uses the same search engine that Google Uses. The only difference you will notice is the colour scheme.
December 17, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Interesting concept! I would like to see an actual study that proves this. Even though the screen is black, it still uses power to display it. Your monitor still has a backlight that displays…anything on the internet?
Koopa
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December 17, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I found this link on Power Search
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/black_google_wo.php
Here are some quotes
“CRT) monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page”
“Take at look at Google, for instance, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that’s about $75,000/year, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.”
December 21, 2007 at 4:33 am
but LCD monitors do not use that much power to view pages? Its a good thing I made that switch 2 years ago
Koopa
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December 21, 2007 at 2:09 pm
For those like me who still use CRT monitors – this is a good thing don’t you think?