# Google Mirror: I am so easily amused **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428 "2005-07-13T23:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/1 "2005-07-13T23:53:35Z")
I was teaching a library research class to high school students tonight and one of them showed me [this site](http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/m/index.cgi). No idea why, but it just impressed me to no end. Had to share. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/2 "2005-07-14T00:01:02Z")
LOL! It does have something oddly appealing about it doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/3 "2005-07-14T00:01:09Z")
I just did a seach for “epoD thgiartS ehT” and it worked! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/4 "2005-07-14T00:01:19Z")
!tnaillirb s’tahT The FAQs are interesting - especially about it being used to circumvent Chinese censorship! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/5 "2005-07-14T01:04:41Z")
I found it a bit creepy–not in a Programmers-Need-to-Get-a-Life way, but a My-Universe-Is-Fractured way. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/6 "2005-07-14T01:15:18Z")
I noticed only letters are backwards, numbers still show forward. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/7 "2005-07-14T11:50:19Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I was teaching a library research class to high school students tonight and one of them showed me [this site](http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/m/index.cgi). No idea why, but it just impressed me to no end. Had to share. I’d like to note that my brain read **ykcul gnileef m’I** , which is \*I’m feeling lucky \* backwards, as \*\*I’m fucking. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/8 "2005-07-15T08:19:25Z")
Wikipedia has a thing on this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElgooG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElgooG) ---
**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/9 "2005-07-15T08:32:45Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I noticed only letters are backwards, numbers still show forward. Huh? I see, for example: > [@](#): > > segap bew 156,440,850,8 gnihcraeS - elgooG 5002© How are the numbers not backwards? Unless 2,997 years have just slipped me by… ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/10 "2005-07-15T08:52:57Z")
> [@sundog66](#): > > How are the numbers not backwards? Unless 2,997 years have just slipped me by… Well… they have. We didn’t want to tell you because were weren’t sure how. **racer** wanted some time to work on a puppet show to demonstrate. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/11 "2005-07-15T14:02:53Z")
Duh. :smack: I looked at the site again, Google is spelled with the letters not only backwards but reversed. Everything else is just spelled backwards. I only spent a few moments at the site and assumed all the letter were reversed too. ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/12 "2005-07-15T14:11:31Z")
Ha! I thought I was so clever by putting in “rorrim elgoog” to see what would come up, and the first few entries just say “Google.” I thought, stupid program, doesn’t reverse _everything_, and I’ve just now realized why it looks right. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mirror-i-am-so-easily-amused/312428/13 "2005-07-15T14:48:22Z")
lol **audiobottle**