Givoogle (for every search they donated money to charity, see my earlier blog post about it here) appears to have been shut down by Google “Don’t Be Evil” Inc. The Givoogle founders have set up a new site which is slightly lame now.

The new site which has been set up, Saves Watts says the following:

“WAIT! What happened to Givoogle? After raising $6,569.89 to fight cancer, Google’s lawyers shut down the site, which, they said, was in violation of Google’s terms of service.

We faced a dilemma – what to do with the more than 1 million monthly Givoogle visitors who want to save the world through searching?

We can’t raise money for charity, but we CAN save energy – SavesWatts has a black background, which uses less energy than white.”

It’s the weirdest replacement site idea I’ve seen for a while. Bit of a stretch. Why not just supply a new theme for Google which switches the colour? Why do you need a new site for that?