Pop-ups pushed down at Ask Jeeves

CNET Says Ask Jeeves joins several other sites on the anti-pop-up bandwagon, including AOL, iVillage, and Infospace. They say it\’s a trend that analysts predict could portend the death of such ads on many other popular sites, such as Yahoo and MSN.

\”Web sites now think they can\’t afford to anger consumers,\” said Jim Nail, an analyst with Forrester Research, a research company. \”This will pretty much be the death of pop-ups. But they still will be included in the pool of stuff you can do, with a much smaller percentage of total online ad unit.\”