Google Dark

[Sider]

Do you know how google looks in a dark theme?
check it http://black-google.bpled.com

Do you like a dark or white google?

[waveydavey]

That's horrible

[andyhubbard]

Who turned the lights out :roll:,i'll get my coat.........

[bravo669]

thats odd, whats the story on that then?

[Saffy]

thats odd, whats the story on that then?

About BPLED

Thank you for choosing the energy efficient bpled.

We are an eco friendly search engine powerd by google custom search.

 

The idea of BPLED

One day I was sitting in a dark room and I open google that hurt my eyes because off the monitor have too much contrast. it's too much work to change it every day.. one time I saw a website called blackle that's nice..or not.. the gray text is too dark so it's hard to read on my screen. so created a dark google variant called BPLED with some features I like including mouse over to focus the search bar, black images search (coming soon when it's done) the name means noting it's just a nice name some people call it "Black Power LED" but that's not true.

How can i help the environment?

You will greatly reduce the energy consumption of your monitor when you search with bpled.com set this your homepage to start saving your energy every day.

We like black

BPLED has been made black to reduce the energy of your computer screen by making a black background. It will consume less energy then a white screen. In addition its better for your eyes. Certainly when you are in a dark environment.

 

[TDi90]

thats odd, whats the story on that then?

 

How can i help the environment?

You will greatly reduce the energy consumption of your monitor when you search with bpled.com set this your homepage to start saving your energy every day.

 

That cant be right surely your monitor has to work the same amount to bring up a dark coloured background to a white coloured back ground... your monitor is always "on"

R

[Saffy]

thats odd, whats the story on that then?

 

How can i help the environment?

You will greatly reduce the energy consumption of your monitor when you search with bpled.com set this your homepage to start saving your energy every day.

 

That cant be right surely your monitor has to work the same amount to bring up a dark coloured background to a white coloured back ground... your monitor is always "on"

R

Steve Ryan, program manager for Energy Star’s power-management program, asked consulting firm Cadmus Group to run a quick test by loading Blackle, Google and the Web site of the New York Times (which is, like Google, mostly white on-screen) on two monitors — one CRT, one LCD — and connecting a power meter to both. “We found that the color on screen mattered very little to the energy color consumption of the LCD monitor,” said David Korn, principal at Cadmus, which specializes in energy and environment, and does work for the government. The changes were so slight as to be within the margin of error for the power meter. Tweaking brightness and contrast and settings had a bigger effect. The bulkier CRT screen did see savings with Blackle of between 5% and 20%. Mr. Korn emphasized that this was a quick test, not a rigorous study.

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-a-darkened-google-really-save-electricity-104/

[boss]

http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/

[Terranosaurus]

I do wonder about stuff like this is it totall benign or is there some alternative data gathering motive behind it.

A quick WHOIS on the domain brings up -  Arnoud Arnoud. Might be a coincidence but the MD of MD of PriceWaterhouse Cooper is  Arnoud Kerkhof. Maybe a total coincidence or it may be some market research. Bad enough that google gets all our data as it is without passing it through a second party too.

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Of course, an expanse of black can have a detrimental effect. Ask Marylin Manson or Leonard Cohen.

Or this chap.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VqY6hLosCo&feature=related