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And the prize for Pointless Use of Video goes to...
Ms. Dewey, which is surely the oddest search site to date. It takes a while to load (I believe it's Flash-based, and large), and it doesn't actually provide any value over and above a normal search engine, but -- well, you kind of have to play with it to believe it. It's rather amusing to use once (and I recommend, after doing a few searches, to pause for a while and watch her get pouty and impatient with you), but I can't imagine bothering with it beyond that. Fun, slick toy, but I really wonder how much effort someone put into it, and why...