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Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-the-whacamole-commence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TheNew Scientist has an article about a Google search mirror called elgooG that apparently beats the Chinese firewall to the outside world. It displays all of the text backwards, requiring you to use a mirror to read the text." No big shocker- but imagine how many such mirrors could exist ;)

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  1. The ironic thing... by Kredal · · Score: 4, Informative

    is that the mirror site, http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/, is blocked by the copy of Websense used on my network. Heh.

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  2. Good, except... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's great it displays text backwards and all, but mirrors don't reverse the order text. Make yourself a nice big "R" and hold it in front of a mirror. See the difference?

    If you use a mirror to read this google mirror you are going to see the letters in the right order, but they are all going to be backwards!

    1. Re:Good, except... by Electrum · · Score: 3, Informative

      That's great it displays text backwards and all, but mirrors don't reverse the order text. Make yourself a nice big "R" and hold it in front of a mirror. See the difference?

      If you use a mirror to read this google mirror you are going to see the letters in the right order, but they are all going to be backwards!

      It is possible (and easy) to reverse the entire page with IE: http://x42.com/test/flip.html

  3. Re:Google Mirror by rmohr02 · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you input a search term it has to be backwards as well, and I've never mastered the art of typing backwards. So if you suddenly forget the url for /., you have to type in "todhsals" at this mirror to find it.

  4. Not a real mirror by freedumb_ · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is not a real Google mirror. The site will forward you to other (advertising partner) sites on certain keywords. I've tried "love" und "sex" (normal and reverse) and I am sure there are more.

  5. Re:Take about one second... by AirLace · · Score: 3, Informative

    What browser are you using? The characters are normal (not mirrored) in MSIE 6 and Mozilla 1.1.

  6. Other choices by Nept · · Score: 3, Informative
    better than elgoog:

    Google Labs - allows full searches, can circumvent firewall

    Soap Client for Google Searches

    Google Groups - still accessible for usenet searching.

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  7. body dir=rtl by Chris+Croome · · Score: 2, Informative

    the vertical scroll bar even appears on the left side of my window in IE.

    IE switches the scroll bar to the left when the direction attribute on the body element is set to right-to-left:

    <body dir="rtl">

    More information about right-to-left languages and HTML can be found in the specification.

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