Someone At Google Forgot To Pay The Electric Bill

**Zap** · Mar 29th, 2008, 8:07 am

The lights have been turned off at Google.CA.

mg:
I thought they had tons of money. :P

Google

**unr** · Mar 29th, 2008, 8:49 am

:P
that stupid 60hour earth thing.

It's awsome, I'm gonna be at a concert.
And if they turn the lights out >:U

**iowadawg** · Mar 29th, 2008, 9:37 am

Yeah, same thing happened last year.
Odd thing, lots of cities and towns, and gosh knows how many people, will turn off the electricity for one hour.

**michelle** · Mar 29th, 2008, 12:10 pm

Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out"

Why only in the US?
I wonder if there will be a baby boom 9 months from now!

**Savage** · Mar 29th, 2008, 1:53 pm

Google is such a Blackle copycat.

**Search Engine** · Mar 29th, 2008, 7:37 pm

Noted two days ago, Google is taking its home page black in support of Earth Hour.

We criticized Google when we first posted about this because, it turns out, black web pages actually may use more power than white ones (based on a study that Google itself cited last year). So Google is, ironically, causing people who visit their site to use more power to celebrate Earth Hour than they would on a normal day.

Google changed its message to users to note the disparity (compare to what they said to Israeli users two days ago), but I still find this all very funny.

Earth Hour