Yahoo! kills FareChase

The meta-search model took a blow with the shutdown of the Yahoo! owned FareChase today. TechCrunch has the story.

Here is a Google cached version of what FareChase used to look like. farechase.yahoo.com now redirects to Yahoo! Travel.

Hard to say in this case if it is a mark against the FareChase model or just another botched Yahoo! product