Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costello, and other Google alums have used their insider knowledge to create a competing search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). About $33 million has already been invested into the company. With 120 billion pages, Costello says Cuil’s search capabilities are the most comprehensive on the web. We’re pretty skeptical. The site is still new, though, so keep checking for updates. Even if Cuil does work out some of the kinks, it’s gonna be damn near impossible to deprogram our fingers to type in a site other than Google whenever we need to look up something. —Alison Sher
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