Give a little and take a little – this one is from Weblogg-ed – Ms. Dewey (GN) is a new search engine that has a bit of an attitude (complete with an evil laugh after some period of inactivity when she says that the more we ask, the more she’ll know, and eventually she’ll know everything!, Just ask her about herself – real name follows – and see that she’s becoming self aware! – or try Nintendo Wii – All your base are belong to us… way too much fun to be had). I guess she’s actually not that new, she’s (Janina Gavankar) powered by Live/MS Search and according to Wikipedia is an experiment on the part of MS to see how people will use it (I guess that means geeks will spread it virally).
While, I can certainly see how this sort of avatar can help make things easier, I can also see how it could get “repurposed” for NSFW applications as well (it seems that has already crossed the minds of some… not linked here for obvious reasons). How did my mind get there? This weekend, I was watching “A day in the life of Japan” as it followed a young programmer who wants to make an “Anime Girl” game and the interface is very familiar. The program also mentioned that there is big money to be made in that (anime girl games) genre, especially in the adult sector. The other part is I’ve (for the time being) thwarted pingback/trackback attacks from a decidedly nasty bot that was generating all manner of not-safe-for-any-moral-being URLs.
I can also see how this can be used for all manner of heuristic searching/multi modal purposes as well. While you are searching, the avatar could give the related searches or other additional information.
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