In the field of web design and Internet, a mirror site is a website that copies another website’s contents, generally to reduce network traffic or make content more available or viral over Internet. However, elgooG is not a copy paste type of mirror site. It is a different type of mirror site.
ElgooG, is the backward spelling of the Google and it is a mirror image of the Google search engine. In other words, In the Internet sense, a “mirror” is a site that copies the content like text and images of another site. But here the Google mirror means that it is a mirror in the traditional sense; it is the image of Google, backward means for right to left.
How webpage will displayed, it depend on the browser you use, but the search box at Elgoog has a primary features that it types right to left, and the same applies to the search results as results also display backward like it display in mirror. Over search engines, you can search for queries either backward or forward, but typing them backward can have more fun. However, results may not be understandable.
Is ElgooG a Joke?
ElgooG is developed as a parody site and originally it was designed and hosted by All Too Flat, a parody and comedy website. Although elgooG is not affiliated with Google appears in the fine print at the bottom of the elgooG search screen, a search of the Whois website reveals that the Google is the real owner of the site.
Although the site is intended as a funny site, it has been maintained for several years and is periodically updated to make it real mirror of Google and to reflect changes in the Google’s original website. Search results shown by elgooG search are pulled from the original Google search engine and then displayed reversed to the users.
Google Mirror
ElgooG’s “hcreaS elgooG” and “ykcuL gnileeF m’I” buttons perform the same function as “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons do on Google search engine. Previous versions of Google Mirror had a link to a mirror of Google’s Even More page listing Google services. But now a day, the current version of elgooG has eight button, which link to eight other funny and entertaining games and sites. Tap Google Underwater, Google Gravity, Pac-man, Snake Game or one of the other buttons for a new and entertaining search screen.
Some links provided on Google Mirror lead directly to Original Google services, and some go to a other mirror page within the site itself. Almost all and updated web browsers perform well while using this mirror site, However some browsers may behave differently than others, and occasionally a non-mirrored webpage is displayed in the search results.
ElgooG in China
We all know China censors the internet and blocks websites which it thinks inappropriate for China using the so-called “Great Firewall” of China. In the year of 2002, The Original Google search engine was blocked by the Chinese government. At the same time internet users reported that elgooG was not blocked, so Chinese internet users, who want to use Google as their search engine had a backdoor method of accessing the search engine. Most likely, it never revealed to the Chinese government that although Google Mirror is a parody, but the results were coming directly from Google search engine.
Since then, Google and China have had a tough relationship. Google censored results in China — this action was criticized in the Western countries for doing so — and then Google withdrew from mainland China completely, directing all results to uncensored Hong Kong. As of early 2018, Google is completely blocked by Chinese Government along with social site like Facebook and other websites from foreign companies.
Don’t know whether Google mirror still works in China or not, but the chances are very high that it is blocked by now.
Conclusion
Now, ElgooG or Google Mirror doesn’t provide the real search result any more. Whatever you search, it provides results within the site. But it can be a fun to use this funny parody site.