Maybe it's just the August doldrums, but everyone's favorite tech company seems to be getting hit with a lawsuit lately. Last week it was a class action suit against Facebook dating back to last year's Beacon debacle; today it's Google. Sue-happy GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement. Indeed, suing well-funded tech companies over patents appears to be GraphOn's favorite pastime. Past targets include Yahoo and InterActive Corp.

Blogger and investor Paul Kedrosky joined me from San Diego to talk about whether investors should worry about these lawsuits, and who he thinks is getting slapped with a class action suit next. (Hint: The company makes iPhones.)

Long before Cuil was the most talked about startup in the Valley, it was a side project that stay-at-home dad Tom Costello was tinkering with behind his wife's back. Why? She worked at Google and as he told friends at the time, "I can't do search my wife will kill me."

When he finally fessed up, she didn't kill him. In fact, she was intrigued by the math he'd come up with that allowed a small amount of servers to index billions of Web pages. But she knew there would be doubters and challenges ahead. In our final installment of our interview, Patterson tells me about the early days of the company and what it's like to start a company with her husband.

Check out our earlier discussions. The founders address: the launch controversy, why they stand behind their search engine, and where Cuil goes from here. Plus, a bonus tour!

Tom Costello doesn't care what the haters say, he's dead set on making Cuil into a Google challenger. (He claims the hyped-up-phrase "Google killer" never came from them.) Costello says it's a "travesty" that no one has taken Google on yet and is confident that Cuil will help make Google better.

No one? That may be news to Yahoo, Mahalo and the recently acquired Powerset. In the third clip of our interview with Cuil's founders, Costello and his co-founder Anna Patterson explain why those guys aren't true challengers to the search giant.

Coming up shortly, more from our interview, including:

We thought we'd give you a little behind-the-scenes extra of our visit to Cuil: Anna Patterson giving you the grand tour.

For those of you outside the Valley, it's the quintessential startup with few offices and tons of bikes. And come on -- everyone has a room for compost worms, right?

Coming up shortly, more from our interview, including:

When Cuil launched it mentioned five differentiators:

• Size: It has indexed more than 120 billion Web pages and claimed that was more than anyone else
• Privacy: It doesn't store your searches or activity
• Relevancy: Cuil ranks results based on the content on the page, not popularity of the site.
• Technology: On less than $33 million in venture capital Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages-something larger companies pay billions in servers and equipment to accomplish.
• User Interface: The site boasts a more magazine like aesthetic

It sounded great, but the one that didn't seem to deliver was relevancy. (A search of my name pulled up a picture of MC Hammer, for instance.) In the second piece of our interview with Cuil's founders we focus in on the product, and why Cuil designed it this way from the beginning.

Coming up shortly, more from our interview, including:

• The story of why Anna, the former Google search team leader, ultimately chose to take on her former employer
• Costello’s statement: "It's a real travesty that nobody has stepped up and competed with Google"
• Plus, check out our earlier discussion, as the founders address the launch controversy

 Stay tuned!

It was nearly three weeks ago that Cuil, a new search engine, launched. It was a 24 hours filled with thousands of articles and hundreds of TV spots-some of it effusive and some of it brutal. As CNET put it, "Cuil launched in a blaze of glory and went down in a ball of flames."

The controversy stemmed around Cuil's claims that the company had found a cheap way to index more of the Web than Google, or anyone else, and as such could have more relevant results. Hundreds of millions hoped it was true and flocked to the site. Most were disappointed by search results that were nothing like Google. Cuil founders Anna Patterson and Tom Costello admit they had to scramble to fix lots of problems that weren't clear until the site was live, but they add that different search results are precisely the idea.

We sat down with Costello and Patterson at the company's Menlo Park headquarters this week to let them respond to their critics and give us the story behind the controversy. Before you write Cuil off, listen to what they have to say.

Also, check out part one and two of my discussion with Sacca on Net Neutrality.

As consumers start to understand the ramifications of ISPs monkeying with their Web access, a blog-driven grassroots movement has turned Net Neutrality into a populist issue. Most major democratic Senate candidates have come out in support, and Barack Obama has assured voters it's something he'll actively pursue. That's one of the reasons techies have supported him.

Former Google executive and angel investor Chris Sacca notes the pro-Net Neutrality rhetoric is even starting to cross the aisle, as seen with this month's bi-partisan FCC decision that Comcast was unfairly routing traffic to customers. In the second part of our interview on Net Neutrality, Sacca and I discuss where the Net Neutrality battle lines are being drawn, and what voters can expect after November.

For the first part of my discussion with Sacca, click here.