oh Ms. Dewey
This is why people love avatars, because there is always a chance when you find some attractive woman to play a central role in your new human-ish search interface, it will turn out that she’s appeared naked someplace. [thanks michael!]
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Hi. My name is Jessamyn West and I'll be your librarian today. I work in rural Vermont as a library technologist and am a community manager at MetaFilter.com. My personal blog is at jessamyn.com. This blog's twitter feed @librarian.net. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments.
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December 19th, 2006 at 11:42
This one was really funny! I had to close the window after a while — she was eyeing me too much.
December 20th, 2006 at 12:18
Blah. She bugs me.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:55
Ms. Dewey is a Microsoft project, and is really just a funny interface to Windows Live Search (www.live.com).
To see something really strange, go to msdewey.com and runa search on ‘blockbuster video’.
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:22
Possibly the worst search interface evar. Ajax dies on his own sword toward the end of this story, I think.
Although MSN set it up with Flash; but “Flash” doesn’t have any Greek references that would make sense in context.
Try running the site on a slower computer — I’m using an old iMac today, and the audio of her air-guitar intro is ridiculously choppy on a low-RAM machine.