[Sigia-l] Kaltix

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It looks like there's yet another entry into the search wars, this time with
potential claims of speed and personalization, over Google:

"Kaltix is a 'stealth mode' start-up...(leveraging) research done at
Stanford University as well as several new technologies developed at Kaltix
to provide large-scale personalized and context-sensitive search," a Kaltix
representative said, declining to comment further.

Without discussing Kaltix's plans publicly, the company's founders have
published research that claims to offer a way to compute search results
nearly 1,000 times faster than what's possible using current methods.

Outride's Pitkow said Kaltix's method is similar to looking for a tree in a
forest by examining only a clump of trees rather than the whole forest.

"If you can localize your computations to those types of trees then you can
be much faster," Pitkow said. He added that it takes days to compute
PageRank. "If you can compute it really fast, you can compute it on
per-person basis," he surmised.

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