Hallucination Search

A web search engine. Kind of.

Every result is fabricated by a large language model, and every destination page is fabricated in full by a large language model, too. Nothing you find here is real, and that is the whole joke.

Made with ✨sparkles✨ by maragu: independent software consulting for cloud-native Go apps & AI engineering.

Contact me at markus@maragu.dk for consulting work, or perhaps an invoice to support this project?

Disclaimer: this project is 100% vibe coded.

How it works

• The homepage is a single search input.
• Submitting a query lands on /?q=..., which shows ten Google-style result cards. Results are fabricated by Gemini 3 Flash Preview and cached in SQLite so the same query renders instantly on refresh.
• Cards fill in progressively via Server-Sent Events driven by Datastar signals.
• Clicking a result blocks for up to two minutes while Gemini 3 Flash Preview fabricates a full standalone HTML document, which is then cached in SQLite and served raw.

Running

Set your Google Gemini API key, then let the watch loop do the rest:

cp .env.example .env
echo "GOOGLE_API_KEY=AIza..." >> .env   # replace with your key
make watch

The app writes logs to app.log, rebuilds on file changes, and listens on the address configured by SERVER_ADDRESS (default :8080).

Inspect the cache directly with sqlite3 app.db (remember pragma foreign_keys = 1;).