Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China 288
An anonymous reader writes "TheNew Scientist has an article
about a Google search mirror called elgooG that apparently
beats the Chinese firewall to the outside world. It displays all of
the text backwards, requiring you to use a mirror to read the text." No big shocker- but imagine how many such mirrors could exist ;)
wow! (Score:3, Funny)
i've even got used to reading the url's backwards.
The site got slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
!thgir lla (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The site got slashdotted (Score:3, Funny)
It just got "dettodhsals"!
Re:!thgir lla (Score:2, Funny)
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(htimS niveK ot sporp etairporppa)
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Re:The site got slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
I'd love to see a diagram of the mirror setup that will reverse the order of letters on a screen without reversing the rendering of each letter.
Huzzah! (Score:3, Funny)
I have had for years the strange and useless "party trick" ability to read english equally well left to right or right to left (on paper or in my head, leading to "talking backwards"), and it struck me as cruel that such an awesome talent would be so utterly useless - trust me, in performance, it gets old after about five or ten minutes.
But now I can search for stuff backwards. Today, Google, tomorrow, the world! Muahahahaha!
ahem
Re:Flaw in China's firewall. (Score:4, Funny)
Otherwise they would be fooled endlessly by such simple tricks.
That would make the web almost useless. Then again, why should they care?
I wonder what people see when they click on a blocked link? Do they get "not found", or "you notty boy, that link is subversive"?
If the first, then people must think that a lot of sites are permanently broken.
The gov could get around this by redirecting the links to some proganda page that resembles the original, but that takes a lot of labor. Then again with a nation of 1.2 billion people, labor is not something in short supply. Are they hiring, by the way?
Re:Reality check... Take a look at Western nations (Score:2, Funny)
I would say 1 in 2 people are in the penile system.