Paid Inclusion Losing Charm?
Microsoft and Ask Jeeves have thrown paid inclusion links out of their search engines in recent moves that could bring new pressure on Yahoo to reconsider its fee-based indexing policies.
Source: Wired
It's good to see search engines returning to their roots and keeping the two separate. -KFMicrosoft on Thursday said its redesigned MSN Search site would no longer display links obtained through paid inclusion, a controversial arrangement in which Web publishers pay to have their sites indexed and frequently refreshed. Microsoft said it made the change to clarify the difference between its commercial and noncommercial results. MSN, which relies on Yahoo to power its search, now filters paid inclusion links out of Yahoo's results. Yahoo is now the only major search engine championing paid inclusion.
Source: Wired
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