Ms Dewey – Your Virtual Librarian

My former boss Christer Klingberg at Örebro stadsbibliotek back in Sweden just sent me this really cool link: MsDewey. It’s a… eh… well, a sort of virtual VERY costumer oriented librarian. Very funny! 🙂 But is it more than a good laugh? Is it useful as a search machine? The page is put together by San Francisco-based design shop Evolution Bureau, and seems to be part of a Microsoft ad campaign. The Flash design is nice but the search funcionality seems to be just average. A pity, because the basic idea is excellent I think!

Some blogposts about MsDewey:
http://www.pandia.com/sew/298-ms-dewey-presents-a-new-sexy-search-engine.html
http://www.hunterstrat.com/news/2006/10/18/ms-dewey-just-tell-me-its-a-joke/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/10/19/ms-dewey-puts-the-stupid-in-search/