{"id":10025,"date":"2009-10-14T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-14T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T19:10:00","slug":"mystery-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10025-mystery-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably not. But if you are, there’s one out there for you.<\/p>\n

It’s called Mystery Google and is located at mysterygoogle.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No matter what you type into the query box at Mystery Google it serves up the results of someone else’s search.<\/p>\n

A search for “Twitter,” for example, delivered links to websites about “cabbage.” The query “Joe Biden” resulted in pages about “jellyfish.” “Michael Jackson” served up links about “coiffure.” And so on.<\/p>\n

There is one consistent result. Type in the query “What is Mystery Google?” and the reply is “That is the site you are on.”<\/p>\n

The Mystery Google website has the spartan look of the traditional Google home page but the background is black as opposed to white and features a glowing moon at the top of the page.<\/p>\n

It also bears the notice “Google is a trademark of Google Inc.”<\/p>\n

There was no immediate reply from Google to a query from AFP about the site, which makes its appearance about two weeks ahead of Halloween, the holiday of goblins, ghosts and “trick or treating.”<\/p>\n

Mystery Google<\/strong><\/a> – comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for an Internet search engine that delivers totally random results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}