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I am entirely unsure how this search engine works.

I tried searching for 'pig 14' - and got back an error message that included (html removed):

We're sorry... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. See https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640 Google Help for more information.

https://neuromama.com/get/web/pig-14

thats what i got

It's a PHP application proxying Google search results based on the errors and results.

On my stock Android phone, all the searches just return blank pages. Are you saying it actually works on non-mobile clients?

Getting blank pages on my MBP. So apparently not.

Yes, it's a Laravel PHP application just as dangrossman said. It simply fetches the Google search URL based on your query and returns the results [0].

As you can see, it's returning a Laravel exception, displaying the Google Captcha check HTML code to avoid this type of thing.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/ojwZedZ.png

That is a MVP.

I got an error while searching which contains a Laravel stack trace, in case anyone is curious what a small snapshot of their stack looks like: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/efa644da4f2713b...

We may have overloaded it by mentioning it on HN. Previously, the only users were probably the investors trying it out.

I got a similar one http://pastebin.com/YdDbkVDZ but no HTML kinda looks like they are just fetching from a fixed list.

But you get rewards! http://fsr.neuromama.com

What the hell is that story in the footer.

It reads like a serial killer's confession.

this made my day

I'm convinced there's a hidden message in this

Maybe someone pwned their server?

Holy hell... what is going on!

I believe it's pulled from here?

http://www.eurasialasvegas.com/our-mission.html

Or re-used...

Same company behind them. Both domains are registered to the same email address.

This thing appears on their social network too: https://www.vica.io/our-story/

What a creepy story

It looks like the crap they used to put in spam emails to get past the early spam filters

Best guess is there was a Victoria Zubkis, daughter of Steven Zubkis, who's body was found washed up under a pier in San Diego.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ocean-Beach-Pier-Death...

Apparently that's the CEO's daughter? But the only references I can find say the death was ruled to not be a homicide, so I don't get the references in the text to being murdered by a loved one. And why he put a eulogy to his daughter into the footer of all his web pages are beyond me.

I think mentally unstable and crazy can be rather orthogonal with the ability to scam people.

Can also see it as a clever ruse -- act a little bit "crazy" to attract some short sellers. In hope they'd think something like "This is some crazy company, so cringeworthy, looks overvalued, let's short it".

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