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Ms. Dewey puts the stupid in search
by Ryan Carter Oct 19th 2006
If I said to go search for something online, 95% of us would go to Google, search and be done in a second. What if I told you that now search has a human face, and some are saying a "sexy" face, though I really don't see it like that. I would call it more cheesy, overdone, melodramatic and dumb (not sexy). Heard of Ms. Dewey? The new humanized search engine is full of dumb jokes and makes you wait extra long for very mediocre search results with nearly no UI to scroll down the page of results once you finally get them. Not to mention the horrible 30 seconds to a minute site loading time, which in my "I-love-my-super-fast-Google-search-world" is just unacceptable. Not really sure why Dewey exists, but perhaps that is a question for her. I would rather ask Jeeves, and I don't even like Jeeves. Search should be something that you do, not that you must endure. A++ for dumbest site of the year.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
