{"id":2629,"date":"2007-10-21T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-goes-black-for-lights-out-san-francisco-initiative\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:47:00","slug":"google-goes-black-for-lights-out-san-francisco-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/google-goes-black-for-lights-out-san-francisco-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Goes Black for Lights Out San Francisco Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google homepage switched &#8220;off the lights&#8221; and went black for one hour for all Google.com visitors in San Francisco as part of the <strong>Lights Out San Francisco<\/strong> Initiative to save energy for one hour today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightsoutsf.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Lights Out San Francisco Initiative<\/a>, a citywide <strong>energy conservation event<\/strong> on Oct. 20, 2007 when they invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm PDT!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-google.gif\" alt=\"Black Google Homepage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google expressed its support for the event and blacked out the homepage and posted the company&#8217;s commitment to environmental awareness and energy efficiency by supporting the Lights Out campaign<\/p>\n<p>So why not have a black Google homepage forever? Blackle was an initiative which runs a black Google custom search based on this hypothesis, but Google clarified earlier that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/google-clarifies-black-google-blackle-may-not-save-energy\/\">Black Google may not save energy<\/a> after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google homepage switched &#8220;off the lights&#8221; and went black for one hour for all Google.com visitors in San Francisco&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}