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Thunderstone
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Webinator3 release date moved back

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We have been working feverishly over the course of the last
couple of months to enable the release of Webinator 3, and as
of last Friday we thought we had it. However, a detailed review
of the Alpha distribution revealed too many unresolved issues
to deem it acceptable for public consumption.

We have made major changes to both the visible and and administrative
sides to Webinator in release 3. These include:

* Faster search speed by up to 5X.

* Vastly improved user interface.

* Many new knobs and dials to improve user control over the search.

* Database administration via the web.

* A Vortex version of the gw command that you can completely modify.

* Faster full domain crawling through parallel crawlers.

* A Vortex based metasearch like those on Dogpile or Metacrawler.

You may have noticed some of new Webinator features and a change in the
look and feel on the Free Index Service or Thunderstone's site.

Many of the issues that have stalled this release are related
to backward compatibility and co-existence with full Texis installations.
Webinator3 takes advantage of many features in most recent versions of
Texis and Vortex and we want to ensure that upgrading will not create
side effects.

Here's the plan:

We are going to upgrade Webinator 2 to version 2.5 which will contain
The new user interface, Texis, and Vortex. Solaris, Linux and NT distributions
will be available later this week. If we're lucky we might be able to
get the rest done too. Version 2.5 is completely backward compatible with 2.0.

We're going to hold the release of the Web based admin and crawler until
we have the rough edges removed. This will take a couple more weeks.

We will provide downloadable versions of Vortex code for crawling
and the Metasearch that you may use until such time as we have the
full release bundled.

A Notice will follow when 2.5 becomes available.

Thanks,

Thunderstone





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