But in the last decade — in addition to search services for adult adoptees — an industry has sprung up catering to adoptive parents who do want contact.
Partsearch also operates a Web site for consumers, Partstore.com, which sells the same merchandise, and it builds online part-searching services for Circuit City and other companies.
Both companies have introduced new search services for consumers -- services that give advertisers new ways to bid on search terms.
The first was that Google favoured its own specialised search services (for restaurants or flights, say) ahead of others.
VERITY, Sunnyvale, Calif., a maker of search engine software, agreed to pay Inktomi Corp., Foster City, Calif., $25 million for a business that provides search services for corporate computer networks.
It says Google is using its so-called universal search technology as a way to favor Google's own services like maps, news, YouTube, and search services for books and other products.
Google's operations and long-term prospects in China were shrouded in confusion, as it emerged that it is still censoring search services for its partners because of contractual obligations.
In addition a range of value-added patent, trademark and industrial design search services for the public have been developed.
This part of the agreement would at least cover Google's search services for restaurants, finance and shopping.
Today, the company quietly noted that it is now powering paid search services for Mail.ru — which looks like it is the unnamed company powering Mail.ru's decision to drop Google for its own solution back in July.
The NCBI was a system of interlinked biological databases created by the US National Library of Medicine, which provided a series of search services for biological data.
