On 14/1/09 05:12, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
I think they are the same company, just different branches.
Yahoo! and Google both provide ways for developers to reuse their search
results. This is just one independent company reusing Google's search
results to power a search page with a black background. The search page
is not the same as Google's.
Google turned their own search page black for one day (Earth Day 2008):
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/google-goes-bla.html
From what I've read, there do seem to be significant power savings with
black pixels rather than white pixels on cathode ray tube (CRT)
monitors. Power savings on LCD screens are apparently either lower or
even inverted:
http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/shades-of-grey-on-black-google.html
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-black-is&print=true
To take advantage of any such power savings on a Mac, it would arguably
make more sense for users to set all pages to use white text on black
backgrounds or use the system's inbuilt ability to invert colors.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
