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MaggieL · 09-09-2002, 11:47 PM

I had heard that some Chinese folk were using the joke site "Elgoog" to serve as a kind of proxy. The hole may have been plugged by now.

http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ is a joke site; you ask someone if they've tried the Google mirror site, and point them to it....it's a joke on the work "mirror", of course.

But today they have a plea at the bottom of the page, with a Paypal donation link: "Hosting a Google mirror for 1.3 billion Chinese people isn't cheap. Please help us out with our bandwidth costs."

09-09-2002, 11:47 PM	#4
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	I had heard that some Chinese folk were using the joke site "Elgoog" to serve as a kind of proxy. The hole may have been plugged by now. http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ is a joke site; you ask someone if they've tried the Google mirror site, and point them to it....it's a joke on the work "mirror", of course. But today they have a plea at the bottom of the page, with a Paypal donation link: "Hosting a Google mirror for 1.3 billion Chinese people isn't cheap. Please help us out with our bandwidth costs." __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."