04/06/2004 "End of an Era"

Following the switch of results at AlltheWeb over to the new Yahoo! search engine (as noted by Pandia and Search Engine Showdown), it appears that Altavista has finally followed suit.

It's a shame that AV appears to have lost some of its advanced syntax options, although both Babelfish and the multimedia databases are still accessible. This grand daddy of the current crop of search engines is where a lot users (and seo's) first came into contact with the brand new world of search on the Internet.

Hopefully Yahoo! will stick by its promise and continue the brand, using it to test some new features in the future.