Oct 6

elgooG

It’s apparently been around for a while, but I just ran across elgooG today.

1.1. Why is this backwards? […] It’s a Google mirror. A common practice for busy websites is to create a mirror site, which is an exact replica of the original site but on a different server. This way if one server is really busy, you can go to the other server. elgooG is a play on this idea, except instead of an exact replica of the site, it’s a mirror image of the site.

I couldn’t figure out why none of my searches would work, until I realized that I needed to type them in backwards. If you visit in IE, the scroll bar is even on the wrong side. Pretty funny. Don’t miss the article on their OPI filing.

by Joe   October 6, 2004 3:06 PM   |
  tags: 
elGoog, Google

Comments

by sirhC,   October 6, 2004 4:25 PM  

On September 07, 2003 no less...

http://www.gadgetopia.com/2003/09/07/GoogleMirror.html

by Joe,   October 6, 2004 8:24 PM  

Dangit, and I even checked first! I searched for elgooG, though, so I missed it. I knew it sounded familiar!

by Rebecca,   December 7, 2004 8:45 PM  

I luv this site!!! My friend is the one thatshowed it to me and i fell in luv... It's like a joke but it's not The searches actually work Very awesome

by Phil Widdowson,   December 8, 2004 8:20 AM  

It exists because of stuff happening in China with Google. Apparently they've blocked it, so some clever people reflected it, it uses the same engine as google too.

by Xander,   December 13, 2004 2:51 PM  

A friend of mine at work introduced elgoog to me and I loved it from the first moment. It's a great place to visit and I use it more than google hehe.

Xander

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