It seems Google.com has new competition when it comes to providing search results on the Internet. No, not Microsoft's frustrating Bing.com. It's MysteryGoogle.com, a search engine that copies Google's simple style but in sinister, evil-twin fashion, nefariously delivering utterly wrong results via Google's back door.

A search for Filippa Hamilton, for instance, turned up results for "OMG!" on the real Google.com. A search for "elderberry juice" brought up news on "David Beckham and the England national team." A search for "Halloween" left us perusing results for baseball's "World Series."

The site is registered to a private party in Brea, Calif., and when you type '"What is Mystery Google?" it offers the following response: "That is the site you are on." Some features are just for show. For instance, if you click on the "Advanced Search" and "Language Tools" option, nothing happens. However, the ads work, indicating that someone intends to make some bank from the prank.

It appears Mystery Google became active just this month, according to data by companies that gather information on Web traffic. Alexa, for instance, ranks Mystery Google as the 45,751th largest site in the United States. That's not quite as big as Google.com or NewYorkTimes.com. But a spike in traffic earlier this month made MysteryGoogle.com appear about as large, traffic-wise, as an alternative weekly newspaper in Denver -- Westword.com.

That's not bad for a site that appeared out of nowhere, had no discernible PR launch, creates no content of its own and guarantees absolutely useless search results.

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