It was officially announced that AllTheWeb is closing. Yahoo! no longer supports the function as per april 2011: AlltheWeb.com
Before the world turned to google by default, there used to be a plethora of search engines. Most of them gave a headache with the prolific use of colors and animated gifs or were simply link farms. AllTheWeb was clean and spartan, but that was not the reason I used it so much. The reason was blazing speed. No other search engine gave the performance of AllTheWeb and it gave mostly very accurate results.
And now we have this useless 'google instant' thing that actually slows down our network by spamming surplus connections, argh...
I'm also not a big fan of Google Instant or any of these real time "match and display for us" gizmos.
Sad to hear this...
The search engine market used to be a lot more diffuse, with different providers offering different type of services. Now the oligopoly is clearly established. Even cuil.com is gone.