I came across this new search from Microsoft called Ms. Dewey yesterday, it’s a flash based search interface with video and audio of a woman (Ms. Dewey) who gives her opinion on what you search for, along with the search results.

Doing a search for ‘pint of guinness’ and she’ll pour a beer (not quite guinness but close enough!) right in front of you, while searching for ‘iPod’ gives a few different answers, from a rant about your mp3 collection to what headphones to wear.

Some other interesting searches are ‘bmw’, ‘George Bush’, ‘Apple’ and ‘Zune’.

It’s an interesting idea and is fun for about 5 minutes but gets very annoying if you want to actually get search results, or if you just wait around and do nothing.

Someone went to an amazing amount of effort into not only creating the video, but cataloging results into various subsets.

It’s a lot of work for something that will only be used for someone for about 5 minutes, but it’s a good showcase of the the Microsoft Live Search technology.

This is probably one of the reason Microsoft’s search isn’t in the same league when it comes to users as Google – search should be simple.