Ms. Dewey's dog

I know I must be the last person on the planet to find out about Microsoft's latest bizarro scheme to capture at least some tiny portion of the hip and cool computer user demographic ... Yes, I have finally met the infamous Ms. Dewey.

As I wrote in my comment to Rozanne's review, my initial encounter with this character actually caused me to break out into a sweat (for real!) from sheer embarrassment. Because this Ms. Dewey, she's brash, bold, and in-your-face to the extreme! When the window finally opened on her bleak and strangely futuristic office environment, she was screaming orders at someone just off-screen. Then, when she realized I was watching, she started insulting me. And when she got bored with that, she started simpering and writhing around like a thirteen-year-old practicing making out with herself in the mirror, or lip-syncing to some horrible pseudo-pornographic pop song.

Shocking behavior for a character that, if you think about it, started out as an animated paper clip!

AAANYway, after I calmed myself down (these way-out-there types of folks always make me feel wildly self-conscious, for some reason), I went back to look at her some more. I still hated her. And apparently, she hated me too. Or at least, she kept insulting me continuously the entire time I waited (and waited, and waited) for the results to my searches.

When I finally got tired of watching her, I went to Google to find out what the hell! And I found out that Ms. Dewey has a softer side. A side that loves her big spotted dog, a dog who bears an uncanny resemblance (if you can ignore the spots) to the darling and loveable Taterman.

So, to summarize: as a search engine, I pronounce Ms. Dewey a miserable failure for reasons that are well-documented all over the world wide web. But I give her a couple of points for the dog.