After Thursday's announcement, those links will eventually appear above the main search results page with larger images of relevant products, suggesting the shopping site could see a bump in Web traffic.

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Their main role is to demonstrate a range of the company's products, with knowledgeable and enthusiastic staff on hand who are under no pressure to clinch a sale.

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In response it made a succession of foreign deals, mainly in Europe, in its area of electronics and engineering, with the main aim of gaining know-how and better products.

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Codexis's technology works with pharmaceutical precision indeed, one of its main commercial products is the enzyme system for making the chemical precursor to Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that is marketed by Pfizer.

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According to CNN, many of the women in a sewing cooperative on the Filipino Island of Mindanao were fed up with not being able to deliver their products because of the violence that had closed down a main road between two villages.

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