elgooG? Yeah, Google
China is able to block a site like Google because the country's 45 million internet users can only access the web through government-run ISPs. However,
China's widely criticised blocking of the web's most popular search engine Google can be defeated by viewing a strange Google mirror site through a mirror, New Scientist has discovered.
The mirror site, called elgooG, is a parody of the English language version of Google in which all the text on the web pages has been reversed. The text terms used for searches are also entered in reverse. The site, which returns all the same hits as Google, can be accessed from behind China's "great firewall".
This site has been made possible because Google has recently release an API that allows remote access to its search capabilities. This means mirror sites can be created without having to duplicate Google's colossal database.