Saturday, March 14, 2009

Green Search Engine - Saves PC Power and your Eyes

By Prof. Stephenie M spears

According to Wiki experts and MIT scientists : Human eyes have color receptors known as cone cells, of which there are three types. In some cases, one is missing or faulty, which can cause color blindness, including the common inability to distinguish red and yellow from green, known as deuteranopia or red"green color blindness. Green is restful to the eye. Studies show that a green environment can reduce fatigue.

Green as a color represents peace and growing vegetation in abundance. The wavelengths of green range between 520 to 570 nm, and hence is the average composition that is easily adapted by the human eye, The luminosity functions of the rod and cone of the eye are most sensitive at about 555nm, which is slightly yellowish dark green. (#2F6533 - color code).

Going Green , Well what does it mean? Does that mean eating vegetarian, wearing green clothes, using green cards and green cash! Well no one can give a perfect answer to explain what it takes to go green and implement the green values. While all the organizations are moving towards recycled and refurbished raw materials , IT industry is trying its best to come up with LCD monitors that significantly reduce the power consumption when compared to CRT monitors. A white background web page uses 74 watts per load compared to 59 watts of black background ( Roberson et al report 2001 - visit http://www.officialiwant.com - How energy is saved.)

This staggering difference is the cause for search engines like Blackle and Envirogle to use Black as the predominant color on their sites. But The fact stays good, when energy of the PC needs to be saved, On the flipside is that Black background in webpages causes more strain to the eyes and dilution of pupils tend to generate short migraines over time.

Google according to a previous report on digg.com in Feb 2009 stated that the market share of search is distributed as 78% in its favour , while 14% with yahoo, 5% with MSN and the rest for all other search giants. The reason for an 8% rise in last 6 months, according to experts, is that Environment friendly searches are on a rise and sites like Blackle Officialiwant Envirogle and Greenmaven have all opted for a color theme to save energy watts and created awareness about using the right display options. This indirectly benefited google because all of these theme sites are partners of google custom search and go for a no-advertisement homepage to create brand value and stamp market authority of google.

According to OIW user feedback, Searching at officialiwant.com for 5 minutes and then switch to google.com on a new webpage clearly demonstrates the difference and benefits to the user without any more theorotical explanation. We at Nelson IT college are promoting Officialiwant.com as moral obligation and would recommend http://www.Officialiwant.com to you. Save your eyes Save your PC Go green today. - 22783

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