Kaltix Corp. was a web

World Wide Web

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 search engine

Search engine

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 that was formed by Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in June 2003 in Palo Alto, California

California

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. It was established to personalise and contextualise web searches by designers Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh and Sepandar Kamvar

Sepandar Kamvar

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. In August 2003, the company's Page Rank system, designed to show results based on the individual requirements of the user, was rumoured soon to outrank Google's consensus approach. On September 30, 2003, Kaltix was acquired by Google

Google

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for an undisclosed figure.