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Microsoft Hires Porn Star To Sell Search. No, We're Not Making This Up.


Posted by Mitch Wagner, Dec 11, 2006 06:31 PM

Janina Gavankar, the actress who serves as the human face of Microsoft's Ms Dewey search engine, previously worked on a soft-core porn film, Cup of My Blood. Valleywag has the story, along with not-safe-for-work photos.


On Ms. Dewey's search engine, Janina Gavankar shows some geekbait cleavage. In b-flick Cup of My Blood, the actress showed off rather more.

Matt Dewey makes a childish joke about it -- in other words, just the sort of humor we like. We laughed and laughed. (With safe-for-work photo. Well, mostly safe for work. If anybody hassles you about looking at the page, tell them you're doing research on Internet marketing.)

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