Smart, petulant, knowledgeable, flirtatious, funny, resourceful...

Talented Ms Dewey

"People have been brainwashed into believing that web search cannot be better than that provided by Google", bemoaned the CEO of Ask.com in a recent Time interview. This belief, in part, explains Ask.com's (WAKA Ask Jeeves.com) diversionary marketing emphasis on better user interfaces and search tools as opposed to the basic search results themselves.

Though their instincts were right, Ask.commies would still be surprised to realise that the alternate search interface was not to be anchored by a staid, attentive butler named Jeeves but by a feisty, petulant beauty named Dewey.

All over the wide world of web, the wannabe startup founders (the me-too you-tubers) and the horny, eligible bachelors are in agreement: Gentlemen, the search stops here.