Hack 91 Google Mirror
 
If you want a different perspective on Google,
check out the Google Mirror.
In the Internet sense, a "mirror"
is a site that copies the content of another site. But
there's a Google mirror that is a mirror in the
traditional sense; it is the image of Google, backward.
Antoni Chan's Google Mirror (http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/),
shown in Figure 7-5, copies
Google's main page with everything mirror-imaged,
including the graphic. It's a working search engine,
too—you'll need to enter your search backward
too ;-). If you want to find
"fred," 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
Google's press releases, jobs available (Figure 7-6), even backward copies of the official logos.
The only thing I couldn't do with the Google Mirror
site was set the language options to something besides English. It
looks as if the Google Mirror interface can't accept
the cookies Google requires to set language preferences. I figured
that if reading English backwards was fun, reading
"Bork Bork Bork!" (the Swedish Chef
interface) would have been a howl!
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