Type of site Web search engine Website elgoog.im | Owner Google Registration Optional | |
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Launched April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01) | ||
elgooG (Google spelled backwards) was a mirrored website of Google Search with horizontally flipped search results, also known as a "Google mirror". An unofficial elgooG website was created by All Too Flat "for fun", which started to gain popularity in 2002. All Too Flat's elgooG site found practical use in the People's Republic of China after the domestic banning of Google, circumventing the Great Firewall. A whois request shows that the domain elgoog.com was registered to Google Inc. since 2000, but it is currently for sale. The site was a way for Chinese people to access the popular search engine, which is banned in the country.
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