We are a group who plan to set up a web-site with information on trade
of coffee. Mainly green (unroasted) coffee as traded internationally. 
Most likely with a free-of-charge Q&A facility.  It would be ideal for
us to have someone with the profile of an AG-researcher as part of our
response panel, currently composed of coffee trade experts.  The
researcher would be paid for a few days work per month.  How do we
best find such a researcher ?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 24 Feb 2004 07:13 PST

>>...someone with the profile of an AG-researcher...<<

Can you explain what you mean by an "AG-researcher", please.

Thanks.

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 24 Feb 2004 08:39 PST

I think that he wanted to write GA-Researcher.

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Clarification of Question by alsinger-ga on 24 Feb 2004 08:45 PST

AG-researcher refers to someone with the expertise and experience of
the (500)researchers working for Answers.Google (AG).  Someone who can
"squeeze" more coffee trade information out of the Internet than
ordinary Internet-users can,  and who can thereby supplement/support
the coffee trade experts who will respond to the questions raised at
the Q&A service.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 24 Feb 2004 09:00 PST

Thanks for clarifying...I suspected that's what you meant, but just
wanted to make sure.

Google Answers' terms of service do not permit the researchers and
customers to exchange contact information.  The only means of asking
and answering questions is by publicly posting the question here at
Google Answers.

It is possible (in fact, it is fairly common) to post a question to
the attention of a particular researcher, if you desire to have only
one person answer to your questions.  You are certainly welcome to
post your coffee questions here as often as you need, and to have one
or more researchers at the ready to answer the questions for you.

Alternatively, there are GA researchers who also provide services as
independent research professionals, but once again, we do not provide
such contact information through the forum here at Google Answers.