Where are they now?

Then: Chief architect of the TeraGoogle search index
Now: President and founder, Cuill

After leading one of Google's top web-ranking teams, Patterson left the company to co-found Cuill (pronounced "cool") with husband Tom Costello and former Google colleague Russell Power last year. The project has been described as a Google killer, promising to index web pages faster than Google can - and for one-tenth the price. All Cuill will disclose is that their super-secret startup is "pioneering a new approach to search." Meanwhile, there are rumors that before Cuill launches this year, Google may try to buy them out.