Friday, September 06, 2002

Silly Net Tricks
The New Scientist reveals Google mirror beats Great Firewall of China:
China's widely criticised blocking of the web's most popular search engine Google can be defeated by viewing a strange Google mirror site through a mirror, New Scientist has discovered.

The mirror site, called elgooG, is a parody of the English language version of Google in which all the text on the web pages has been reversed. The text terms used for searches are also entered in reverse. The site, which returns all the same hits as Google, can be accessed from behind China's "great firewall".

Viewing the page using a mirror makes it somewhat easier to read, and would allow someone to find a website.

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The company behind Google has released programming information that provides remote access to its search capabilities. This means mirror sites can be created without having to duplicate Google's colossal database, though to date New Scientist has only identified elgooG.
Check the site out at http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/, but don't try it without a mirror - it's a major headache inducer. This is an idea whose time has definitely not come. Hmmm, I've already said that about a web site.