Developers of new engine say it offers a more comprehensive way to search the Internet.

Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier - searched for better ways to search.

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Interesting... I'll have to keep an eye on it and see how its results compare. But a did a few test searches against Google and I was more satisfied with Google's results. Also, I do not like the layout of Cuil's search results. It's easier to just look down a list than to keep looking back and forth.

My question is: How long will Cuil last before Microsoft buys them out?

Yeah, after posting this article, I did some test searches of my own and felt the same about the results as well as the layout. It's still early though, so time will tell.