Following the recent announcement of Yahoo's new indexing payment model, the AskJeeves search engine wants to distance itself from this line of action, announcing that it will not accept indexing payment models in its database.
After a year and a half, Ask Jeeves' Index Connect paid advertising program has come to an end. This type of service, which Google has never agreed to, consists of a company paying a fee to have its pages indexed more frequently on a particular search engine.
The problem with this tactic, as AskJeeves has now made public, is that it reduces the quality of the results obtained in a search. Thus, for certain search parameters, too many paid commercial results are obtained that are often irrelevant to the person searching.
Google is now the search engine that is completely opposed to this type of payment for better indexing. AskJeeves is joining this policy in favour of better search results, while Yahoo has recently started a payment system of this type, ensuring that it will keep a wall between this type of results and the free ones, so that this does not affect users.
