"I was looking for contact," Williams said.
But eBay hopes to develop new services for marketers who are simply looking for contacts with potential customers rather than simple transactions, charging them for every call completed.
"My presumed theory is that he evidently came here, he was looking for contacts, but he did not find serious contacts, and if he did, they didn't trust him," said Habib Magomedov, a member of Dagestan's antiterrorism commission.
These days, Mr. McDonald travels around the country, looking for contacts and pouring his wine -- often free -- at food and wine events and charity gatherings, particularly ones that attract a large number of blacks, Hispanics, Asians and gay men and lesbians.
Italian police confirmed today that Osman had made a recent phone call to Saudi Arabia while he fled London, but said he may have just been looking for contacts in Italy.
Here, as when looking for contacts, two considerations are paramount: you need a high degree of cultural awareness and sensitivity, and fluent Colombian Spanish to hold your own in any sticky situations that may arise.
But when they swap to a different task, such as asking, "Who are you" or looking for contact details, they snap out of the narrow focus and start looking at the page furniture.
It makes sense, since LinkedIn is a professional network and you are more likely to be looking for contacts at other companies during work hours.
For one thing, it's not just searching for keywords, but also interpreting your queries in a sophisticated way — for example, it understands when you're looking for "contacts" or "recent docs" even when those words aren't used in the documents themselves.
Soldiers go out looking for "contact," as they call it, and a good contact is one that lasts a while.
He came to the island in 1998 looking for contacts who might be able to cheaply manufacture clothing for his skate label.
