Press Release

Australia, Melbourne 2005/Jun/23 Web Wombat Spider technology patent
sealed.

Australia's oldest search engine, Web Wombat
(http://www.webwombat.com.au/), has been awarded a patent as a result of
its research and development efforts in the area of Internet search
engine spiders. Named Mass Distributed Spider Architecture (MDSA) the
invention provides a means of scanning Web pages at an unlimited rate.

By distributing spiderlings at an ever increasing number of
locations on the Internet MDSA provides the ability to distribute the
collection of web pages across a theoretically unlimited number of
computers. The Spiderlings return the digested information to the
Redback mother spider, which in turn stores them in the backend
repository at Web Wombat's world wide head quarters in Melbourne.

Web Wombat has been able to take advantage of the enormous data cost
differentials between domestic and international networks exposed
through the use of MDSA technology. By using computers dotted around
the world we're able to spider Australian web sites from offshore using
cheap remote processing power to compress and send back only the salient
data need by our search engines said Phill Bertolus, one of the
companies founders and its technology director. Australian companies
often pay more than 20 times the rates charged offshore

Development of the technology began in the late 1990s. More than 5
years of continuous research and development have led to the successful
deployment our world wide network of spiders gathering web pages at an
ever increasing rate said Phill Bertolus. The total cost of
operating our spiders has dramatically reduced with overall performance
now achieving record levels

We've also moved off all legacy operating systems, including OS/2,
various flavours of Windows, Solaris and AIX, exclusively to Linux and
Fedora Core 4, with the migration to ultra low cost 64 bit Operon and
Xeon EM64T to follow soon Bertolus said. This provides us with the
large memory capacity machines we once paid millions for in the late
'90s

In contrast with other massively centralized spiders, Web Wombat's
approach is less prone to terrorist attack, a factor once thought to be
vital during the invention of the Internet itself (see aarpanet).

Web Wombat's WombatView Enterprise Search Engines are available to
busineses and Governments wanting to spider their LANs, databases, Lotus
Notes and Intranets with onetime logon and user level security.
WombatView's integrated high performance security engine ensures
people only see those word document and spreadsheet results they have
access to on the network, removing the administration effort imposed by
older silo type engines. said Phill Bertolus. You effectively get
a different silo, which contains everything the user is allowed to see,
for each user on the network with no administration, and they can still
slice and dice the information.