Use Google for all your searching? Concerned about the environment? If the answer to both of those is yes then you need to try Blackle.
Apparently it takes more enegy to display a white screen than a black one so the people at Heap Media created Blackle which delivers the same results from Google but on a black background. As of writing this 123,591.010 Watt hours had been saved.
They make use of the Google custom search engine (which is something that Optiem has done for certain clients) but take it in an interesting direction by tailoring it specifically to a certain set of internet users.
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