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Who cares if she's hot, the fucking UI sucks shit

MsDewey.jpgMs. Dewey: Taking cute too far
If you haven't seen Ms. Dewey, you will probably be hearing about her. She's trying to kill the memory of Jeeves, who you formerly asked. She's also a disaster as far as UI goes. Built in Flash, Ms. Dewey is an antropomorphized search page that features an actress who apparently spent about 20 minutes in front of a green screen making chit-chat that loops as you contemplate your search and the results. She gets impatient, calls "Type something here," taps the screen and asks if anyone is out there,
pouts (she's hot, so she can get away with it like Jeeves never could, a conceit that is sexist on innumerable levels), but mostly proves, as Google Blogoscoped put it, that she—the search interface—is "inhumanly dumb."

Posted by Alan on October 24, 2006 04:18 PM |

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