For example, a Bing image search app shows related images, a YouTube app shows trailers related to actors in an image, an Amazon app gives links to purchase MP3s related to a musician in an image, a Netflix app shows related movies that can be watched, Celebuzz includes news about celebrities and Wikipedia shows related entries from the online encyclopedia.

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Parts of Wikipedia, BBC News, Twitter and Webster's online dictionary have been blocked, though sometimes only briefly.

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The internet blackout blackout of Wikipedia, Reddit and Craigslist made giant news yesterday, and contributed to a number of senators swinging over to oppose the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills.

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Up pops celebrity news from more than a hundred sources, IMDB and Wikipedia integration and social feeds when you scan an entertainment show.

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Blocks have been lifted on a few banned websites: Wikipedia (an online encyclopedia), BBC News and Playboy, a site that offers pictures of naked women.

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Another company where purging of Wikipedia information occurred is Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ).

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Somewhere in between the New York Times, Wikipedia, the Huffington Post, the Guardian and Facebook is a news site that mixes original reporting, borrowed reporting, the social echo and the raw data underneath all the buzz.

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The project , which is described as "experimental" by Google , could be seen as good news for wiki-heads hoping to make money from the same specialized knowledge they give to Wikipedia for free.

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Perhaps if you had absolutely no knowledge of the U.S. military, or indeed access to Wikipedia where SEAL Team Six has had an entry since 2004, it would be news to you that SEAL Team Six, along with the Army's Delta Force, are America's premier counterterrorism units.

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