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Google Acquires Kaltix, Yahoo! Tests Inktomi Search Integration - Search Engines News and Articles - September 30, 2003

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Today Google announced that it has acquired Kaltix Corp., a recent silicon valley search technology startup.

Google Acquires Kaltix Corp.; New Technologies and Engineering Team Complement Google Search Engine
September 30, 2003 09:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2003

Google Inc. today announced it acquired Kaltix Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based search technology start-up. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Google buys personalized search start-up
Last modified: September 30, 2003, 12:50 PM PDT
By Reuters

Web search company Google on Tuesday said it bought Kaltix, a start-up that builds the personalized and context-sensitive search tools the industry sees as part of its next wave of product offerings.

There's very little information about Kaltix Corp. online at this point, but Stefanie Olsen wrote an article describing Kaltix's goals last August.

Searching for the personal touch
Last modified: August 11, 2003, 4:00 AM PDT
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search--and possibly out-Google Google in the process.

Monday, September 22, 2003
It's not really news, but people are still writing about the fact that Microsoft has enormous wealth and intellectual resources, and is dedicating those resources to building a new search engine. The reason people are writing about it is because Microsoft and their PR team want them to write about it, and the news has been pretty slow in the search engine arena of late.

Microsoft goes after Google
Friday, September 19, 2003 Posted: 3:13 PM EDT (1913 GMT)
REDMOND, Washington (Reuters)

"Microsoft, which is trying to drive growth by investing in everything from small business software to video games, has quietly set its sights on a new industry -- searching the Web."

Sunday, September 7, 2003
Happy Birthday Google.

Google celebrates fifth birthday
The world's most popular site for searching the web, Google, is five years old.
BBC News, UK Addition

Friday, August 22, 2003
Yahoo! is currently testing the use of Inktomi web search and comparing it to Google, likely in preparation for replacing Google with Inktomi on Yahoo!'s properties.

Yahoo's Inktomi search readies for launch
By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
Friday, August 22 2003 9:43 AM
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Yahoo is expanding tests of search technology from its recent Inktomi acquisition in preparation for a global launch, company representatives said Thursday.

Monday, August 18, 2003
AltaVista, which is owned by Overture, which is being purchased by Yahoo!, offered a new search toolbar on its site today at www.altavista.com/toolbar. It will translate text or web pages into 10 languages and will block pop-up ads. Very handy. Of course, the Google toolbar also blocks pop-up ads, but it doesn't translate like AltaVista's does. Yes, you can have both.