Google search is a very important middleman indeed.
The market is less a shopping mall than a vast, endless trade show, built for those most important of middlemen: retail buyers, who flock here from across China and the rest of the world to negotiate deals on shipping containers full of cheap products to fill the shelves of stores back home.
The go-between or middleman was an important figure in the sale of local people into slavery; he provided the distance that made such slaves into outsiders, for the purchasers did not know their origins.
He added that those held were middlemen and accomplices, but that important suspects remained at large, and the newspaper was taking care not to compromise the investigation with leaks.
They do a lot of different things, but the most important is this: Fannie and Freddie are the middlemen between regular consumers who sign up for mortgages and banks.
In SEO, it is important to understand both the customer and the middleman that mediates what the customer will be shown.
Getting inside, Mr. Chertoff said, is particularly important because many of the weapons are bought by middlemen at gun shows and shops and then resold or delivered to the cartels, making them difficult to trace.
Spotify might hope that more artists work with it directly, cutting out the middlemen, but the record labels still provide some important marketing, radio promotion, and distribution services that artists need.
The Icap brokers played an important role in the fixing because the company acts as a middleman and its brokers have relationships with many of the banks that are involved in setting the yen Libor rate.
But equally important is the influence of eBay and auction house websites, which cut out the middleman's margins.
