Aral Balkan

You tired, you poor, hungover masses yearning to Google... stop rubbing your eyes, Google has turned off the lights to support Earth Hour.

On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.

So now that Google's gone black, will it ever go back? Apparently.

As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display.

So is black the new green? Read. More.

Links:

• Earth Hour (currently buckling under the traffic.)
• Google UK
• Facts and Fallacies on Black Google
• The Full Story on Black Google, Blackle, etc.

Comments

• It looks like atari game...

  by Yagiz on 2008-03-29 17:26:18

• Well done google: it's light off for google in the uk. How do I get back to the old white screen, Also thw word 'google' appears in big letters right across the screen on the desktop. How do I get rid of these? Please help.

  by george nav on 2008-03-29 13:34:59