Will Altavista & AlltheWeb Atrophy & wither away?

! search-engines-web said: "[COLOR=Navy]What is in the future for these Search Engines? It seems that they are being completely ignored by Yahoo! Wonder if sooner of later, the SERPs will just [I]REDIRECT[/I] to Yahoo SERPs. They could - at least - be given unique Algorithms so that users have a choice when searching the Yahoo pocessions. It is so sad to see them neglected![/COLOR] :("

Darren said: "A year ago Tim Myers spoke at the Webmasterworld Pubcon and he indicated that development would stop at those engines and all efforts would be rolled into Yahoo. At least the best parts of AlltheWeb like their "link:" command have been integrated in the new Yahoo Search."

edwin said: ""yahoo" is clearly the strongest brand. i bet they'll still do experiments at the other domains."

Darksat said: "Altavista still has a slightly different video search algo to yahoo."

edwin said: "yeah. i bet they experiment on one. altavista used to be number one in 2001. how fast things can change."

Darksat said: "I used to love altavista. So easy to SEO for."

AngelaCea said: "The hell with AltaVista, what happened to DarkSat :confused: :cool:"

edwin said: "you ran him off the way google ran off altavista."

Darren said: "Darksat is about as relevant as AltaVista these days. Maybe less so, because their site still pulls ;)"

Heather said: "Someone will buy them out before they wither and fade away. Search is too hot these days. I'm sure they could find someone willing to pay them a lot of money, despite revelance."