Spurred by a 20-minutes user average of fruitless Web searching, Microsoft is pioneering a new search engine that reportedly understands users better.

The search engine, Kumo.com, us being privately tested by Microsoft workers in hope, that it will power the US software giant out of a distant third place in a market dominated by Google.

Kumo reportedly understands sentences and relationship between words by using semantic technology.

Current search engines, including software used by Google, rely on matching types words with websites and online data. There is speculation regarding whether Microsoft intends to replace its Live Search with Kumo since an internal memo written about it by Satya Nadella, a Microsoft senior vice president, was leaked online earlier last month.