Image Elgoog Logo.png thumb 200px elgooG logo lowercase elgooGelgooG Google spelled backwards is the literal mirror image of the Google search engine not only is all of its content a reversal of Google, the search terms must also be written in reverse in order to yield the desired results. Though originally created by All Too Flat for fun , ref cite web url http www.alltooflat.com geeky elgoog info title Google Mirror FAQ ref it found practical use in the People s Republic of China after the domestic banning of Google, as it circumvented the government s firewalls. ref cite news url http www.newscientist.com article dn2768 google mirror beats great firewall of china.html title Google mirror beats Great Firewall of China first Will last Knight date 2002 09 06 accessdate 2009 12 16 publisher New Scientist ref Another important aspect is that because search terms in elgooG were typed in reverse, and the search results were also in reverse, it was harder for intermediates to track what users were searching for. Other Google mirror sites are currently available online see External links section below . A WHOIS request shows that the domain elgoog.com has been registered to Google Inc. since 2000, ref cite web url http whois.domaintools.com www.elgoog.com title DomainTools WHOIS ref but is for sale. References Reflist External links http elgoog.im Google Mirror I m elgooG Another Google mirror site respecting Google s original design http elgoog.rb hosting.de index.cgi elgooGElgoog hosted on rb hosting.de DEFAULTSORT Elgoog Category Internet search engines Category Google Category Internet censorship in the People s Republic of China Website stub es ElgooG fr ElgooG nl ElgooG ja ElgooG no ElgooG pl ElgooG pt ElgooG ru ElgooG fi Elgoog tr Elgoog zh yue ElgooG zh ElgooG ... more details
about mirror sites information about hard disk mirrors disk mirror Merge Data synchronization date June 2011 Multiple issues cleanup February 2011 confusing February 2011 original research September 2010 In computing , a mirror is an exact copy of a data set. On the Internet , a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site. Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large download s. Mirroring is a type of file synchronization . A live mirror is automatically updated as soon as the original is changed. Reasons Mirroring of sites occurs for a variety of reasons. To preserve a website or page, especially when it is closed or is about to be closed. To allow faster downloads for users at a specific geographical location. For example, a United States U.S. server could be mirrored in Japan , allowing Japanese Internet users to download content faster from the local Japanese server than from the original American one. This may be viewed as web cache caching on a worldwide scale. To counteract censorship and promote freedom of information . For example, an activist might post pictures on a website of a company conducting illegal activities or make available information on secret government activity and be litigation litigated for such. Other internet users will make the content in question available on other servers when the legal action results in the cancellation of internet service provider ISP or Domain Name System DNS services for the original activist. To provide access to otherwise unavailable information. For example, when the popular Google search engine was banned in 2002 by the People s Republic of China , the mirror elgooG was used as a way of effectively circumventing the ban. To preserve historic content. Financial constraints and or bandwidth prevent the maintainers of a server from keeping older and unsupported content available to user ... more details
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