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December 4, 2007

Live goes deep while searching

Filed under: Google, Live, Tips — చక్రవర్తి @ 3:48 pm

Most of the industry say that, Google is the top search engine and will give you lot of results when you search. But the missing point is that, Live Search gives you deeper search when compared to Google.

Surprising !!!! i just did a small search for my name, Chakravarthy, at both the search engines. To make the figures matter, i go upto 100 pages in Live Search results. Where as, Google takes me only upto 84 pages. To my surprise, when i go back to the 83 page, then i see the search pages count is increased from 84 to 87. is isn’t it weird ..

And adding to my surprise, i read a statement at the bottom of the last search page as

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 870 pages already displayed

 

Don’t believe !!!! Try out your self..

August 6, 2007

Save Power by using Google in Black

Filed under: Google, Save Energy — చక్రవర్తి @ 3:37 pm

Would like to bring this to your attention that, while searching at Google you could save some energy. Would you like to know ?How??, read further, not interested !!! Just Move on to next message.

Consider that you query at Google.com (with White background as it is by default). And white pixels as full background will consume 74 watts. You seek some info at Google, and the search results remain on your screen for more than 10 seconds.

The statistics from Google states that an approximate hit count for a day is at around 200 Million, that means there are about such huge number of people who are hitting Google by default with White Background. Resulting to consume the energy of 74 watts with every user. For your information on general CRT, the white pixels consume 74 watts, where as the black pixels consume at about 59 watts. So when you calculate mathematically, you would save about 15 watts, when compared to white background with black, causing lots of saving at the radiation from CRTs, Cathode Ray Tubes. But this is not true with LCD Screens, Liquid Crystal Display Screens. The LCDs will consume the same amount of energy when compared to both Black and White.

So, for the fact of figures, if 200 Million people use Black background Google instead of White background, estimate how much power saving??? And one more thing, you might not have all the 200 Million hits from the system that is attached with CRT Screens. When practically speaking, we see more CRT display screens than LCD screens. Hence request you to save energy, as an old saying echo?s in my mind as, ?A penny saved is a penny earned?. In similar, ?Energy saved is Energy Produced?

The alternatives for ?White Background Google? is ..

1) 07designs.com/gdark => This has some script that will install as browser plugin

2) Searchincolors.com => You can search in any color that you like for Google.com, as background, foreground, blah, blah,..

3) Godark.us => has many other features, I recommend this due to the extra features

4) Jabago.com => thou not high funda, but meaningful

5) Ninja.com => simple to remember

6) Google-black.blogspot.com => You can write your own Google, as this blog. Inspire from this blog, can you create one such??

7) Trek3d.com/black => what are your comments on this???

Finally, any other recommendations towards ?Googling in Black??

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