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Baidu, the largest search engine in China, may soon face an anti-trust investigation over allegations that it blocked and degraded search query results for a Chinese online encyclopedia website. The complaint was filed by a company that owns the Wikipedia-like site Hudong.com with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). The complaint requests SAIC to begin an anti-monopoly investigation against Baidu and to fine the search giant 790 million yuan (US$120 million).

Cuba has launched its own online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia to present the world and the history from its own point of view so that people across the globe could know not only the truth shown by developed “capitalist” countries but also the truth of underdeveloped happy communist nations.

It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as "the empire of our time" and "the most powerful nation of all time."

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation demanded the popular online encyclopedia to stop showing high-resolution image of its seal saying it violates the federal law and could be misused my miscreants to create fake documents, as reported by the New York Times.

In the letter sent to Wikipedia the FBI says:

"Unauthorized reproduction or use of the FB I Seal is prohibited by 18 United States Code, Section 701, which provides:

Google donates the Wikimedia Foundation an amount of $2 million. The Foundation funds Wikipedia in various languages, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and other projects.

The non-for-profit organization has 33 employees in its staff and in 2009 the foundation was donated more than $6 million.

While Google’s gift will cover Wikipedia's expenses for some time there is still problems the site faces as the number of footsoldiers willing to edit the site for free is declining.
 

 Wikipedia is sued by a murderer who committed a disgusting manslaughter of a famous German actor Walter Sedlmayr. Attorneys took legal actions against the online encyclopedia on behalf of Wolfgang Werlé, one of two men to receive a life sentence for the 1990 murder of Sedlmayr.

 Wikipedia founder announced this week that he concluded an agreement with a computer maker HP to enable users to create and print magazines. Under this partnership users will be allowed to create and print their own magazines using Wiki content. The main idea behind the project is to personalize the wealth of information on the Internet.

"We are doing all kinds of things like that to think about ways to sustain this idea of participatory culture," said Jimmy Wales, founder of the user-edited Wikipedia.