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multigle search

Heard of blackle? The Black Google! Now we have one more multigle.

Blackle was brought out will the intension of saving power by providing a black background to Google search. The idea is that a black pixel on the monitor screen consumes less power compared to a white pixel. However, this was true only on CRT monitors and not on say the LCD monitors. Infact, it consumed more power. So Blackle is not of much use on laptops.

Now, multigle seems to have a solution for laptops. The idea is simple. Reduce the brightness of your computer screen and you will save a lot of power. The site itself does not do anything, but claims to have been designed to be viewed, without strain on the eyes, on a dull screen. The site will only encourage the user to lower the screen brightness.

However, the effect of this is not restricted to the site alone. Once the user uses multigle to search (results provided by Google) and realizes to decrease the monitor intensity, she will eventually browser out from the site, but the effect of saving power is still present or rather multiplied (xplied as they say)  across web sites and even outside the browser.

Now, whether people actually decrease the intensity, I find the site to be quite beautiful and simple like the plain old Google. You could browse the site at http://www.multigle.com.

Update: More information can be found at http://xply.multigle.com/why and http://xply.multigle.com/how.