Altavista UK Closes Free Email

[Brett_Tabke]

[uk.revolutionmagazine.com...]

AltaVista’s motivation in closing its free email services is less to do with banishing its users to a month-long diet of site re-registrations, and more to do with a definite shift away from portal status to pure search services. Oh, and it’ll save a few quid on email server costs too, which is good news for parent venture capital firm CMGI.

[seth_wilde]

I think it's a way to late.. but it's good to see AV pulling away from the whole portal thing and moving to pure search.