Yahoo: I have seen the future of search, and it’s … a monkey?

I can't wait to see the mascot/logo for SearchMonkey.

I seriously can't understand why two companies, Yahoo and Microsoft, with such a fetish for pointless pseudo-3D characters couldn't manage to come together as one.

Pics:

http://www.biancolo.com/jim/search_dog.jpg

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