- ElgooG
elgooG (
Google spelled backwards) is amirror image of the Google search engine. This page and all the results are displayed in reverse. The site is called the "Google mirror" as aparody of the term mirror in computing, which usually refers to a copy orbackup of another website.cite web |url=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2768 |title=Google Mirror beats Great Firewall of China |accessdate=2008-07-21 |last=Knight |first=Will |date=2002-08-05 |work=New Scientist]The site was created by Antoni Wang and a group called All Too Flat, [cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-113813645.html |title=Columbia U. student's Web site presents Google, only in reverse |accessdate=2008-07-21 |last=Lor |first=Jenny |date=2005-10-04 |work=University Wire] who put up various
comedy andsatire pages on their website. To search on thissearch engine , a user must type in the keywords backwards for it to understand the search string.Use in China
elgooG received large usage in
China in 2002, as a bypass for Google itself, which has been blocked in that country. Users in China have also used elgooG to access other sites, such asBBC News , that are normally blocked in China.cite web |url=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2768 |title=Google Mirror beats Great Firewall of China |accessdate=2008-07-21 |last=Knight |first=Will |date=2002-08-05 |work=New Scientist] [cite web |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25908467_ITM |title=Mirror site helps breach Chinese firewall. |accessdate=2008-07-21 |date=2002-09-10 |work=Asia Africa Intelligence Wire]References
External links
* [http://alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog elgooG Website]
* [http://google.about.com/od/googlereviews/fr/elgoogrev.htm Review of elgooG on About.com]
* [http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi Mirror of the Google Mirror]
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