Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
It's a video game
ContractVille is a pretty similar game except it's also open world and coop. It has its fair share of performance issues and bugs though, especially when you're playing coop as a non host.
Inferior to other search engines. I've had more luck finding things I want using ddg when I haven't been able to on Google. Maybe I've been lucky.
Google search results have been inferior for a lot of things for a long time now
The game is extremely grindy and you can buy platinum with real money which allows you to buy a lot of things in game, not just cosmetics.
With that said though it's generally a good game if you like grinding games in general. You don't have buy platinum to get by and even if you do you can't really skip the grind as far as I know (you can skip crafting times though which can be a week long for certain things last I checked.) You can also trade with other players for platinum, although I've never dabbled so I don't know much about that honestly.
Who shit in your breakfast?
Not quite. They've completely replaced and expanded/improved a LOT of things. Just read their dev blogs and find out for yourself.