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Source: Phillip Bertolus (phill@webwombat.com.au)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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Web Wombat, Australia's premier search 
engine, is preparing to commission a new 
global engine with more than 4 million US 
pages (.com, .gov, .edu, .org) running under 
OS/2 Aurora (OS/2 Warp Server for 
e-business).

Located at http://global.webwombat.com.au/ 
the new engine makes use of Aurora's ability 
to allocate upto 2 Gigs of virtual memory 
which can be shared among several CPUs. It's 
estimated that the Aurora server based 
engine will be able to serve in excess of 20 
million pages at a hit rate well in excess 
of 100,000 hits per hour with room to 
expand.

The overall capacity of the engine has also 
been increased thanks to enhancements made 
to the implementation of OS/2's TCP/IP 
stack.

A recent survey found that Web Wombat 
accounts for 14% of Australia's portal 
traffic. This rate is expected to more than 
double as the new engine comes out of beta 
testing and is handed over from Program 
Development Systems, the engine developers,  
to Web Wombat in time for the Sydney 2000 
olympics.

Web Wombat's Australia specific engine 
located at http://www,webwombat.com.au/ 
currently runs OS/2 sustaining a hit rate of 
300,000 hits per day with peaks of just 
under 40,000 hits per hour.

Web Wombat's expanded communications links 
(provided by Telstra Corporation) are 
expected to see more than 10 million new 
pages added to the database in record 
breaking time. 

The scanning robot's backend database is 
powered IBM's DB2 universal with the online 
engine running the Programs Development 
Systems' proprietry high performance text 
database system.





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