I recently came across a cool Flash implementation of the MSN API lovingly called Miss Dewey through this blog post.
What do I think about Miss Dewey? Actually, aside from the cool flashy interface and the apparent interactivity presented by Miss Dewey, I don’t see anything about Miss Dewey that will revolutionize the search engine industry anytime soon. Why? Here are a few reasons… First, flash websites always load longer than plain HTML websites. Worst, Miss Dewey preloads a set of videos that it than loads to create a cool interactive interface. Third, the search results are no better than Miss Dewey’s API so why go for Miss Dewey if you can just search direct at MSN?
On the other hand, I have to say that Miss Dewey did get the attention of a lot of people (including myself) since it’s something new. Then Miss Dewey herself is pretty cool when interacting with the users. A friend of mine even said that she was hot - LOL.
Well, to the developers of Miss Dewey - congratulations. You did a job well done though I personally don’t find any good use of your work as of now.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Well wait until she starts changing clothes… you will like it too. *LOL*