I’m glad somebody critisized the new Altavista ads, because I don’t have time to do it properly. Since the dawn of search engines we’ve overpromised their abilities when we offer a single text box and imply we’ll find whatever the person has in mind (which may have nothing to do with what they type in). Now Altavista comes along and explicitly says they can serve up whatever you want when in fact they can’t. They’re really riding the advertising line between marketing and lying.