31.   Google provides Yahoo! with a non-commercial search service under a contract that expires in June, and it is battling rival search engine Inktomi Corp. for that contract.

32.   He compared the deal to a similar alliance announced in March between rival search service Yahoo and long distance company MCI Communications.

33.   Host Lawrence Henry, aka Mr. Nightshift, also offers a search service for hard-to-find records.

34.   However, there are increasingly smart online search services.

35.   However, that ranking represents only traffic at the Google.com Web site and not the search services it provides to Yahoo, Netscape and other partners.

36.   If search services can count on high traffic volumes, the makers of browser software might have an even sweeter deal.

37.   If sites can demand payment from search services that list them, the Web will become even more unmanageable than it is today.

38.   In addition, Excite will become the search service Pointcast customers first see when they venture onto the Web from the network.

39.   In the deal announced Monday, Excite will provide the results for a Netscape-branded search service as well as its own service.

40.   In May, Glazer also made a play to purchase the Web search service Excite, but was rebuffed.