Heres a little pet to accompany you on your searches. I call him "The Sunshine Rabi". Microsoft came up with the genius idea ( well, it was probably someone else that gave the idea to them ) of making a version of the classical windowish search pet online, which users could easily customize and save to their liking. Click on the link and you'll be able to navigate on to the creation of your own pet. There are plenty of features to chose from! Now heres a picture of mine :

Link : http://searchpet.live.se/home.aspx?PetID=63743x850