meta name="allow search" content="yes"

do i really need this tag now?

[supafresh]

I dont know if i really need to have both tags on my page.

<meta name="allow search" content="yes">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

I think they do the same thing, i cant find anything clear on the web about what allow search does exactly.

[Conard]

You don't need either of those tags and never did.

[goodroi]

search engines assume they can follow everything they want to follow so you dont have to tell them to follow & index.

[bigcat1967]

You don't need them if you want your pages to be indexed - however, if you don't want a specific page to be indexed, then you'll need those tags and tell them that you don't want any bots indexing your page