Along with the profiles, the sites include advice columns, chat rooms, even singles trips and cruises.
The national DNA database is already the largest in the world, with the profiles of 4.5 million people already recorded.
New York City has amassed a database with the profiles of 11,000 crime suspects.
There are no banners outside the door emblazoned with the profiles of Bert and Ernie, no illuminated signs bearing the likenesses of Oscar the Grouch or Cookie Monster.
Lee Corso, the ESPN college football analyst, said the rating had little to do with the B.C.S. and more to do with the profiles of the schools.
It indicated that biological evidence in the case had characteristics consistent with the profiles of 15percentt of African-American men, including Mr. Osborne.
He is trying to anticipate what skills his clients in the United States may need in the next few years and match them with the profiles of his approximately 1,000 software engineers and others.
Dr. Gitomer said he and his colleagues at the testing service based their conclusions on a comparison of the academic profiles of 153,000 aspiring teachers from 20 states who took licensing exams from 2002 to 2005, with the profiles of about 140,000 teachers from the same states who took the licensing exams from 1994 to 1997.
When Begum first started working on domestic worker rights, her team received a package from a recruitment agency in Sri Lanka with the profiles of 45 women who had disappeared after being placed in employment in countries across the Gulf and then sold from family to family.
THE VICTIMS -- The painstaking, and painful, process of identifying the thousands of victims buried or incinerated beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center is about to enter a new stage as the authorities in New York began to match 3,000 DNA profiles provided by victims' families with the profiles yielded by 5,300 human remains found at ground zero.
The companies with the profiles (mostly MySpace and Facebook) know this.
