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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Failure According to Ms. Dewey

posted by on February 14 at 10:18 AM

A Slog tipper writes:

Dan Savage’s morning news summary had a link to a story about trimming which had a link to a MSFT search engine called “Ms. Dewey”. I had never heard of this new serach engine, so I checked it out. The site features an animated and sexy librarian-type figure who says a couple witty lines in response to your search request while opening a bubble with the regular search results.

I take it you know about Google bombing and you’ve seen what happens (or used to happen) when you Googled “failure”. Ms. Dewey also has a good response to failure. Go see…

I did go see. I typed in “failure” — and keep in mind this is a Microsoft search engine — and Ms. Dewey said:

You know, it’s easy to make jokes about the president. So easy, in fact, that I’m going to pass on it.

Ha. Ms. Dewey! I typed “failure” again. She replied:

Solidify the base! Stay the course! Leaders lead! There, now can I be president?

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mmm papi from the l word. my wildest dreams have come true!!

here is an interesting article about the actress behind ms. dewey, complete with tasty pictures.

Posted by kim | February 14, 2007 10:50 AM
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I asked her "what is sexy" a few times. Her response was pretty sweet the first couple times, and pretty amusing about the fourth time. Quite insidious to play to my lonely inner nerd.

Posted by dwb | February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
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the best answers button is great!

Posted by ddv | February 14, 2007 11:06 AM
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Be sure to type in "Pimp", too funny.

Posted by Joe | February 14, 2007 11:33 AM
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searching "bush" gets fun results too

Posted by Cook | February 14, 2007 3:21 PM
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I typed it in four times. Biatch gets even more sarcastic.

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