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Blackle is Google’s answer to energy saving. It does this because the screen is predominantly black, and although it is dependant on your screen settings, it has been proven that darker screens requires less energy than white or bright screens.

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

So the next time you suddenly feel the need to google something, try blackling it instead. At a time when wasted energy has become more concerning, Google steps up and proves that every little bit counts. Please help spread the word.