Categories: Internet

Tired of the same old search? Sick of entering a search term only to be greeted with a bland, white screen? Well say hello to Ms. Dewey. She’s the best thing to happen to search since video search, and a helluva lot sexier than that Jeeves. MsDewey.com is an interactive Flash-based search engine. Enter a search term, and she makes a sassy comment on it. She’s surprisingly intelligent (a rare combination for such a knockout), and you’d be hard pressed to find a search term that stumps her. I’m gonna ask a question that I never thought I’d ask. Is it wrong to fall for a search engine? Think about it. Aside from being hot, she’s smart, full of personality, makes me feel like I’m the center of her world, and my fingers make her respond in surprising ways. How many flesh and blood girls are like that? Yeah, I know. I’m pathetic, but you have to admit, I do raise a valid point. Use her for about half hour and you’ll see what I mean. Oddly enough, when I searched for “Darth Vader,” she said, “Nothing gets me in the mood faster than that man’s voice.”

And here’s the funny thing, she was created by Microsoft! My God! Just when I thought there wasn’t an innovative bone left in those geeks over in Redmond! But strangely, they aren’t marketing it in the typical aggressively Micro$oft fashion. They’re hoping viral marketing will give their Live Search a boost (it currently controls a measly 9% of the market). I think Ms. Dewey is just what the doctor ordered. The only drawbacks are that the site loads slowly, and doesn’t give comprehensive results. Plus she gets a little needy if you don’t type for a while. Still, she does keep me company those long nights when I have assignments working on. Janina Gavankar of “The L Word” plays the Ms. Dewey character, just in case you were wondering (and I know you were). Yet another entry to your list of “girls I don’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell with.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to work on my James Earl Jones impression.