elgooG
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elgooG (Google spelled backwards) is a mirror image of the Google search engine. This page and all the results are displayed in reverse. The site is called the "Google mirror" as a parody of the term mirror in computing, which usually refers to a copy or backup of another website. The site was created by a group called All Too Flat, who put up various comedy and satire pages on their website. To search on this search engine, a user must type in the keywords backwards for it to understand what is being searched for. It is also very useful for computers and networks that are banned from Google to search what is needed to be searched.
[edit] Bypassing Chinese censorship
New Scientist Magazine reported in December 2002 that the site had become popular in China, where the locals were prevented from accessing the normal Google site and other popular search engines because of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese government.[1]
However, the elgooG mirror was not capable of handling the variable-width character encodings or double-byte character encodings (including Big5, GBK/GB 18030/GB 2312, ISO 2022, and other character encodings) used to encode the Chinese character set. Thus, many Chinese users were restricted to pages using encodings that use only a single byte per character such as ASCII, ISO 8859, and other ASCII extensions.
