Today "personal" section of WSJ had an interesting article about new ways some of the internet giants are developing and integrating features into their sites. Specifically site dealt with how sites like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask use spinoff sites to test features without putting their existing formulas at risk. Of course I had to test these sites out and I was surprised with… Microsoft’s creation. That’s right, thumbs up to Microsoft for Ms. Dewey. Microsof’s www.msdewey.com uses pre-recorded video clips of actress playing Ms Dewey to entertain while you search. Needless to say she is quite entertaining. In fact once i started entering various search queries into the search box and she started saying stuff I stopped focusing on how useful the query returned was and started focusing on what sort of silly things i can get her to do.
And yes, Isaac and I just had to enter in some questionable queries just to see her responses, which are quite hilarious i must say. So here are some screen shots and enjoy.
Edit: However despite Microsoft’s Ms Dewey being entertaining, Google’s SearchMesh.com still takes the top for usefulness.
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wow, she’s hot!
this is kind of cool.. i like this.. i think it’s distracting from the actual search but it’s pretty cool though. Nice find!
yeah, it’s pretty cool… it’s interesting when you search for anything Apple she responds in a very negative way… hmm.. i wonder if that’s just a coincidence
pretty sweet! if i were a search engine, that’s what i would want to look like!
I’m with Jess, she’s smokin’
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