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Next in the favourite brands category is Google, the King of the internet, the greatest search engine of them all. If you’re not on the first page of Google, you might as well not be on the net.

Instead of going on a little rant about the control Google has over the internet, I thought I’d talk about Elgoog. Elgoog is a mirror version of Google, which means it is a backward version of the site. It allowed people in China to beat the firewall the government had placed upon certain searches on the Chinese Google page.

You can find more about this on the New Scientist site. This is the sort of thing I love about the intern…

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A little while ago I started a feature of ICM’s favourite brands. Here’s one we really had to feature, seeing as how we probably wouldn’t have jobs if Apple hadn’t developed quality graphics packages. Marketed recently as the trendy down to earth alternative to the PC, its ease of use and applications has always lent itself to the design industry.

The ipod is featured in our calendar as an example of thinking beyond simplicity. It probably saved Apple from it’s downward spiral as we…

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To keep us on our toes they often add in the odd rogue ingredient. Keen-eyed innocent drinkers will also have noticed shiny trumpets, two-man tents and rubber ducks in the past.

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