But BA spokesman Philip Allport said staff would only search for images of high profile, VIP travelers -- most of whom would appreciate the more attentive, personalized service it provided.

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Forty years later, while preparing for the historic anniversary, NASA began a frantic search for those images after a well-publicized loss of the original video of the Apollo 11 landing.

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Based upon the theme of the image they're looking for, users can also search by whether it's a portrait, couple, or group photo and can even search for those images that are either city or landscape shots.

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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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For example, a search for "cycling" will instantly display pages of stories, videos and images being shared on cycling.

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It's taken more than six years of development, but a new imaging system for the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope finally started capturing images last month, and promises to aid significantly in the search for planets outside our solar system (otherwise known as exoplanets).

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Kathy McKeown, who will be the director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, said research projects in the media center will include the development of more sophisticated search tools for content in online videos and the tracking of online text, video and images to understand when people express opinions and how they persuade each other.

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