[semi-extrinsic]

https://neuromama.com/get/web/WTF

I am entirely unsure how this search engine works.

[aaronscott]

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.

[DON1]

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

thats what i got

[dangrossman]

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

[semi-extrinsic]

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

[asadhaider]

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

[kornish]

Getting blank pages on my MBP. So apparently not.

[codedokode]

That is a MVP.

[Shanea93]

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...

[Animats]

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

[asdfaoeu]

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

[homero]

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

[revelation]

What the hell is that story in the footer.

[openasocket]

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.

[rdtsc]

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".

[SolarNet]

It reads like a serial killer's confession.

[rhubarbquid]

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

[girvo]

Holy hell... what is going on!

I believe it's pulled from here?

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

Or re-used...

[duskwuff]

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

[haddr]

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

What a creepy story

[kylehotchkiss]

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

[mirimir]

Maybe someone pwned their server?

[kylehotchkiss]

this made my day