{"id":480,"date":"2008-10-23T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-10-23T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T13:02:28","slug":"better-than-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2008\/10\/better-than-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you there was a search engine out there that was actually <em>better<\/em> than Google?!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay, I&#8217;m cheating a little.\u00a0 But, there really is a way to make things better, while you continue using Google for all your web-search needs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthle<\/a> and it&#8217;s the only &#8220;Energy Saving Google Custom Search Engine&#8221; you&#8217;ll need for a long time!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how its history page describes its origins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a January 2007 blog, Mark Ontkush, a leading expert in &#8220;green&#8221; computing calculated the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let&#8217;s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that&#8217;s $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first encountered it a few weeks ago, I couldn&#8217;t help but smile at the power and the sheer simplicity of the idea!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful way to save tens of thousands of dollars, and several hundred megawatt-hours of energy, while you&#8217;re at it?!\u00a0 I already use it as the default search engine in my IE7 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/searchguide\/en-en\/default.mspx?dcsref=http:\/\/runonce.msn.com\/runonce2.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">see instructions<\/a>).\u00a0 But, you can read Earthle&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthle.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">About<\/a>&#8221; page to find out other ways of adopting this green technology.<\/p>\n<p>Switch off Google, and switch on Earthle, today.\u00a0 As with all good things, the time to do it is now!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Update : August 2009<br \/>\nSee Also : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blackle.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you there was a search engine out there that was actually better than Google?!\u00a0 Well, okay, I&#8217;m cheating a little.\u00a0 But,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,11],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-environment","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}