# com.google - A mirror image Google

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 1, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483 "2015-04-01T09:10:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483/1 "2015-04-01T09:10:24Z")

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Check out [http://com.google/](http://com.google/)

Everything is a mirror image, including search results. If you do an image search the images are reversed. I’m not sure if it’s just for April 1 or not.

I wasn’t even aware that there was a “google” top-level domain.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483/2 "2015-04-01T09:18:42Z")

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> [@davidm](#):
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> I wasn’t even aware that there was a “google” top-level domain.

A few years ago they allowed new TLDs to be registered by anyone willing to pay.

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**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483/3 "2015-04-01T09:27:22Z")

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Right, but I wasn’t aware that Google had registered it.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483/4 "2015-04-01T14:00:56Z")

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Images reversed too.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/com-google-a-mirror-image-google/716483/5 "2015-04-01T18:35:44Z")

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Google “do a barrel roll”. Not new for today, it’s been around.