Penguin
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Google, the search engine to end all search engines.

Developed at StanfordUniversity. (An ex-WaikatoUniversity student from the Digital Libraries lab used to work for Google.)

Probably the world's biggest Linux Cluster. (Currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime.)

If you're outside NewZealand, it's very likely you found the Wiki through Google!

Google became a bit more region specific a while back - http://google.co.nz/ is the NewZealand version.