The five men may have pulled in millions of dollars with their scheme, which involved infecting the computers of social-network users, then selling them fake antivirus software or hijacking their Web searches on behalf of marketers.
Until January, Google censored its search results on behalf of the government.
Mr. Sullivan says the company has about 900 researchers, which it calls "experts," who search fares on behalf of the sponsoring travelers.
Churn rates among resellers and affiliates that buy search advertising on behalf of local businesses are even higher.
This distant server forwards user queries to the search engine on behalf of the user and returns results to the user.
Trada buys search keywords on behalf of these retailers, but it gets paid only if its experts figure out how to spend less than what the client is willing to pay Trada for each customer it generates.
Just as people could register with Match and receive e-mail messages when the company found prospective dating partners, Ancestry.com will search genealogical records on behalf of its users and notify them when it finds relevant information.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) carried out last month's search at Moorley on behalf of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.
Leone's film also has a subplot about a search for vengeance on behalf of persecuted minorities, and on top of this The Lone Ranger piles the extermination of the Indians, the stealing of mineral resources, the corruption of the law and the subversion of the military.
"In the early evening of June 12th, UpGuard Cyber Risk Analyst Chris Vickery discovered an open cloud repository while searching for misconfigured data sources on behalf of the Cyber Risk Team, a research unit of UpGuard devoted to finding, securing, and raising public awareness of such exposures.
Additional features include the ability to search group archives, and reply on behalf of a group.
