Google Mirror
If you want a different perspective on Google, check out the Google Mirror.
In the Internet sense, a âmirrorâ is a site that copies the content of another site. But thereâs a Google mirror that is a mirror in the traditional sense; it is the image of Google, backward.
Antoni Chanâs Google Mirror (http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/),
shown in Figure 7-5, copies
Googleâs main page with everything mirror-imaged,
including the graphic. Itâs a working search engine,
tooâyouâll need to enter your search backward
too ;-). If you want to find
âfred,â for example, you need to
search for derf
. Search results are mirrored as
well, naturally.
In fact, just about every page you can visit on the regular Google site is mirrored here. You can read mirrored copies of Googleâs press releases, jobs available (Figure 7-6), even backward copies of the official logos.
Figure 7-5. Antoni Chanâs Google Mirror
Figure 7-6. Googleâs job page viewed through Google Mirror
The only thing I couldnât do with the Google Mirror site was set the language options to something besides English. It looks as if the Google Mirror interface canât accept the cookies Google requires to set language preferences. I figured that if reading English backwards was fun, reading âBork ...
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