skibum - 5:21 am on Mar 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

Does it seem realistic that there is no connection whatsoever between the paid and unpaid databases?

If there is no connection and paying to have pages included has no effect on the unpaid pages, then the database would probably be full of duplicate pages - one version from the paid database, the other from the regular crawler eventually.

Also if there is no connection you should be able to submit a page for a year (say the homepage which is almost always included for free), stop paying and the free version should still be in the index.