Ask Jeeves joins the no pop-ups bandwagon.

CNET News reports that search engine Ask Jeeves is the latest site to ban the ever irritating ads. Although the article notes that they will be replacing them by targeted ads in search results. But it's still encouraging. It almost makes me hope that maybe some day we can deal with the spam as well. At the same time it also indicates the continuing difficulty in finding ways to fund the net, through advertising or anything else.

In an unrelated note, I noticed that the CNET News web address is "news.com.com." Yes, a double dot com. Don't know why I find that funny. The official name of the Moscow Times, one of my favorite news sites by the way, is Moscow Times dot com, although it's actual address is dot ru. Interesting the way language evolves.

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