Did Cnet.com Boot Ask Jeeves Product Because it is AdWare?

While Ask Jeeves is vigorously denying charges made by some people that their products constitute Spyware or AdWare, Cnet.com's Download.com quietly dropped Ask Jeeves' Smiley Central product.

Cnet.com Bans Adware and Spyware
Cnet.com, as you may be aware, recently announced that they were no longer listing software products that they felt were spyware. In this Download.com Blog entry from April 2005 (well after my initial January 2005 post), the writer says of Ask Jeeves:

It was pointed out to me recently that search company Ask Jeeves is a fairly big player in the adware market. My opinion of Ask Jeeves, never particularly high, has suffered a great deal due to this revelation, old news though it is. I'm generally amazed at how much financial backing adware companies get.

On April 28th, Cnet.com came out with this statement:

Download.com (www.download.com), a property of CNET Networks, Inc... today announced a new zero-tolerance adware policy which has resulted in the removal of all software programs on its Web site that include adware of any kind. More than 500 products were removed from the site after software publishers were notified of the ban earlier this month and given three weeks, ending today, to comply by removing the adware from their products.

Now, I'm not saying that Ask Jeeves' Smiley Central software product was removed by Download.com because it is Spyware or AdWare. I'm just pointing out that hot on the heels of Download.com banning spyware, and Download.com's official blog making reference to Ask Jeeves as an adware pusher, this is what is found when you enter the url of where Smiley Central used to be located:

Smiley Central
This title is no longer available!

So, if AJ's Smiley Central isn't AdWare, why isn't it available from Download.com,the internet's most important download website in the world?