<s>
Kaltix	B-Application
Corp.	O
,	O
commonly	O
known	O
as	O
Kaltix	B-Application
,	O
was	O
a	O
personalized	B-Application
search	I-Application
engine	O
company	O
founded	O
at	O
Stanford	O
University	O
in	O
June	O
2003	O
by	O
Sep	O
Kamvar	O
,	O
Taher	O
Haveliwala	O
,	O
and	O
Glen	O
Jeh	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
in	O
September	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaltix	B-Application
is	O
a	O
startup	O
company	O
,	O
formed	O
to	O
commercialize	O
personalized	O
web	B-Application
search	I-Application
technology	O
utilizing	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
proprietary	O
algorithms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
developed	O
a	O
system	O
to	O
speed	O
up	O
the	O
computation	O
of	O
Google	B-Application
's	I-Application
PageRank	B-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
and	O
personalize	B-Application
search	I-Application
results	I-Application
by	O
sorting	O
them	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
interests	O
of	O
the	O
individual	O
instead	O
of	O
the	O
consensus	O
approach	O
developed	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
claimed	O
by	O
the	O
founders	O
of	O
the	O
company	O
that	O
the	O
algorithm	O
offered	O
a	O
way	O
to	O
compute	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
nearly	O
1,000	O
times	O
faster	O
than	O
what	O
was	O
possible	O
using	O
current	O
methods	O
in	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaltix	B-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
work	O
of	O
Sep	O
Kamvar	O
,	O
Taher	O
Haveliwala	O
and	O
Glen	O
Jeh	O
when	O
they	O
were	O
members	O
of	O
the	O
PageRank	B-Algorithm
Project	O
at	O
Stanford	O
University	O
as	O
graduate	O
students	O
in	O
2002	O
to	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Their	O
aimed	O
to	O
advance	O
the	O
PageRank	B-Algorithm
algorithm	I-Algorithm
developed	O
by	O
Larry	O
Page	O
and	O
Sergey	O
Brin	O
,	O
the	O
co-founders	O
of	O
Google	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
Their	O
efforts	O
resulted	O
in	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
three	O
algorithms	O
:	O
Quadratic	O
Extrapolation	O
,	O
BlockRank	O
and	O
Adaptive	O
PageRank	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Together	O
,	O
they	O
formed	O
the	O
foundation	O
of	O
Kaltix	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaltix	B-Application
Corp	O
was	O
founded	O
a	O
short	O
time	O
later	O
on	O
June	O
16	O
,	O
2003	O
;	O
the	O
same	O
day	O
the	O
trio	O
published	O
their	O
business	O
plan	O
and	O
purchased	O
the	O
Kaltix	B-Application
domain	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
August	O
2003	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
PageRank	B-Algorithm
system	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
show	O
results	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
individual	O
preferences	O
of	O
the	O
user	O
,	O
was	O
rumored	O
soon	O
to	O
outrank	O
Google	B-Application
's	I-Application
consensus	O
approach	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Just	O
three	O
months	O
after	O
the	O
company	O
's	O
founding	O
,	O
Kaltix	B-Application
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
for	O
an	O
undisclosed	O
sum	O
,	O
on	O
September	O
30	O
,	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaltix	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
met	O
with	O
excitement	O
and	O
mystery	O
by	O
both	O
technology	O
writers	O
(	O
including	O
The	O
New	O
York	O
Times	O
)	O
and	O
the	O
technology	O
industry	O
as	O
a	O
whole	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Enthusiasm	O
for	O
the	O
potential	O
of	O
personalized	O
Google	B-Application
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
up	O
to	O
five	O
times	O
faster	O
was	O
accompanied	O
by	O
speculation	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
little	O
information	O
known	O
about	O
the	O
company	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
its	O
founding	O
and	O
acquisition	O
by	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
Kaltix	B-Application
has	O
been	O
noted	O
for	O
its	O
importance	O
and	O
its	O
impact	O
in	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
personalized	B-Application
search	I-Application
.	O
</s>
