After I read about the concept of saving energy by making websites black, I immediately changes over to black on one of my blogs. I then went to a forum that was discussing good and bad design decisions and the consensus seemed to be that people don’t like black. They complain that it is too hard to read. There have been people pushing Google to go black. They are too duplicitous to come out and say that they aren’t changing because they don’t want to risk loosing any of their enormous share of the search engine pie. They say that it is unclear as to whether the savings are really significant. They biggest savings comes with CRT monitors, which are gradually being displaced in the market by other more energy efficient monitors. I think public places that have rows of CRT monitors should set black search sites as homepages. I am going to try using Blackle instead of Google.
