Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China

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 ;)

Re:The site got slashdotted

[kasperd]

Not yet. I actually suceeded in a search there. Of course when doing my first search I forgot to write the words backwards.

But I actually found a detail they didn't get working right. Though every word is written backwards, they didn't get every letter mirrored. So looking at the page through a mirror is not going to give the right result.

Watch this.

[cioxx]

Fun with IP protocols.

Slashdot - 1075594134 [1075594134]

Google - 3639550820 [3639550820]

Wonder if that would beat the Firewall also.

Discuss. ;)

Re:Take about one second...

[Reece400]

It seems that it works backwards if your computer has a compatable backwards font installed, no idea why any one (until now) would have one tho,,,

Re:Google is like Napster or Kazaa

[the gnat]

You still have the right to unelect your congressmen, or to run for office yourself. You also have the right to protest unfair legislation. You're also able to see what's happenning in our government because it is legally required to operate in the open, and you can even see exactly which companies donated money to which politicians. None of this is true in China.

I agree that IP law has tilted in favor of corporations. You're extrapolating this trend to predict corporate-organized totalitarianism. For the benefit of those readers here who haven't yet reached high-school US history, we've been through worse before. Labor strikes used to be broken up with armed troops. Now our economy is tightly regulated to protect the citizens against the industries. The DMCA and SSSCA are troubling, but I hardly think they're any worse than the sort of corporate welfare that's existed for many years.

We live in a mixed economy; deal with it. Socialists and libertarians may not be happy with our system, but it's worked fairly well so far. There are always extremes, where laws unfairly penalize or empower corporations, but I view this is the price of prosperity. The worst of our system usually gets filtered out sooner or later. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be vigilant against abuses, but it does mean we shouldn't be as hysterical as you and the original poster.