mil2k - 4:32 am on Sep 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

[sp.ask.com ]

Ask Jeeves has discontinued the Site Submit program. As of August 31st, 2004*, we stopped accepting paid URLs into our index.

Moving forward, Ask Jeeves is committed to continuing to improve our organic crawling capabilities and indexing all content on the World Wide Web.

I am not sure if this is good news or bad news. Ask was the last paid inclusion (in traditional sense, not counting the Paid inclusion + CPC model). Is this the death of Paid inclusions?

Untill now, my experience with Ask for sites (which are not PFI) was bad. Any reactions?