Blackle

[Happy]

For TEF

For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides. When your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

www.blackle.com

[Darren]

WHo ever started Blackle is very clever - it's not actually google, but someone has implemeneted a google search for which they get revenue sharing on ads from google - wish I'd thought of it!

BTW - if you have an LCD, chances are that there is no energy savings, this only applies to CRT monitors

[Burgs]

Perhaps you need to "invent" "Forcel" Boss and have the background a deep blue hue

[fulvio sammut]

Only Happy could have come up with this one...