I’ve ran across a couple of posts about Kalitx on various message boards, and am interested in what the buzz is all about for this upcoming search engine.

Right now the Kaltix site itself is just a splash screen. I did read a few other articles about it other than message board rumors, such as this one:

Kaltix was formed in recent months by three members of Stanford’s Page Rank team–a research group created to advance the mathematical algorithm developed by Google co-founder and Stanford alum Larry Page that cemented Google’s fame. PageRank has helped steer people to Web sites like no other search technology before it, harnessing the link structure of the Web to determine the most popular pages. Now, Kaltix hopes to improve upon PageRank, with an attempt to speed up the underlying PageRank computations.

Judging by the people involved, it could be interesting. Then again Teoma was supposed to be a Google killer, and it seems that Google is still around.

Overall I like Google because its plain, simple, and returns good results. The Google corporate culture seems to be top notch as well– maybe I can work there when the CS degree is done?