Play Google Mirror
Quick Facts
- Summary
- Explore a Google-style homepage and Easter egg listing mirrored from left to right.
- Creator
- elgooG,
Google - Launched
- 2002
- Status
- Recreated
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The Original Easter Egg
How It Started
Google Mirror reverses the entire interface horizontally, including the logo, text, buttons, and search results. The mirrored text changes how the page is read.
Unofficial mirror sites had used the elgooG name for years before Google launched com.google on April 1, 2015. That one-day April Fools’ joke mirrored Google Search and marked Google’s first use of its .google domain.
What It Did
Google’s 2015 com.google page mirrored the homepage and search results, including their text, images, and buttons. Visitors could still type a query and follow the results, but had to read the familiar interface in reverse.
Impact and Reach
Google’s one-day com.google prank brought a concept already used by fan-made elgooG sites into an official April Fools’ release in 2015.
Its Discontinuation
The official com.google prank was an April Fools’ Day joke for April 1, 2015, and it was only meant to last that one day.
The Restored Experience
What’s Different Here
This recreation mirrors both the homepage and the results-style listing it opens. The listing contains this site’s Easter eggs and links, so you can follow them while reading the text and controls backwards.
The Easter Egg Experience
Click the button above and watch the homepage turn into a mirror image, then return to its normal view. Click the logo to switch between the two. Submitting the search form opens this site’s fixed list of Easter eggs and links; the entered words do not change the list.
How to Try It
- Click the button above to open the Google-style homepage.
- Watch it turn into a mirror image and back. Click the logo to switch views again.
- Submit the search form to open this site’s Easter egg listing, which also flips into a mirrored view and back.
- Follow a card’s link to explore an Easter egg or related website.
On the homepage, clicking “I'm Feeling Lucky”, the magnifying glass, or the microphone icon sends the logo into a fast spin. Clicking the logo itself switches the whole page between mirrored and normal views.
Final Thoughts
The mirror follows you from the homepage into the listing: text, pictures, and navigation all face the other way. Try finding your way through the reversed links to another Easter egg.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is Google Mirror (elgooG)?
Google Mirror, also called elgooG after Google spelled backwards, reverses the interface horizontally. Its text, images, and controls all appear mirrored.
Open the homepage and submit its search form to browse this site’s mirrored list of Easter eggs and links.
The listing is fixed: entering different words does not filter the cards or retrieve live Google results.
How does Google Mirror work?
The page reverses the display from left to right. You can follow its mirrored links to explore the site’s Easter eggs.
There are more Google tricks on this website, from Underwater Search to Google Gravity, and many Easter eggs that Google has retired are rebuilt here. You can also play 2048 and Space Invaders with a Google twist!
