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Green Search Engine - Saves PC Power and your Eyes

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

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 - The term is unique in its appeal similar to many of the colors that nature bestows on us. According to Greenmaven team The Green color symbolises peace, flourishing vegetation and abundance. The perception of green is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520to 570 nanometre. The sensitivity of the dark-adapted human eye is greatest at about 507 nm, a blue-green color, while the light-adapted eye is most sensitive about 555 nm, a slightly yellowish green; these are the peak locations of the rod and cone (scotopic and photopic, respectively) luminosity functions.

All over the world Green politics and Green parties are extending their roots to emphasize the importance of eco- contribution and raise alarm over threats of global warming and silicon garbage. According to Roberson et al study 2001 , The CRT monitors have been the culprit for a long time in consuming energy watts and LCD monitors were introduced to reduce the eye strain with eye soothing background contrasts. A White background in a web page uses 74 energy watts when compared to that of a Black background.

That brings us to the brink of new world of enterprises that are taking the world by storm and Internet being the most powerful median in the history of mankind, awareness of any essential thing is just a click away. While search engines like Blackle and envirogle moved to black theme with their google partnered search websites, Officialiwant.com and Greenmaven sites have opted for green theme to not only save PC power but also viewers eyes and provide healing support to its users.

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.

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