Checking on a late Saturday night I have seen that Google UK have officially tried to go “green” by going black. Some of you may remember Google black a while ago created by persons outside Google. On the homepage of Google they have called it “Earth Hour” to help increase awareness to the environment.

In all fairness they have specified that by turning the pixels black it does not lower power consumption but the idea is nice if a year behind the original idea.

I found this on Digital point from User Sweetfunny and have tested it and this does produce a different result to that of the main Toolbar.

For those who want to see the new values in their Toolbar:

On Windows XP

Navigate to C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc

Open the file HOSTS with Notepad, then at the very bottom on a new line put:

72.14.255.17 toolbarqueries.google.com

Save and close, you will now be able to browse with the new PR values.

As far as I can tell this is not the final PR output but one of many data centers that are updating. I should give you an indication of where things are heading.