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IMDb

Index IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 97 relations: Academy Awards, Acronym, Actuarial science, Alexa Internet, Amazon (company), Ars Technica, Barnaby Dorfman, Bayesian statistics, BBC, BBC News, Box Office Mojo, Breach of contract, Bristol, Bristol Post, Cardiff University, Castlemead, Chief executive officer, CNET, Col Needham, Command-line interface, Creative Commons, Danish language, Data compression, Deadline Hollywood, Deadnaming, Discogs, Electoral fraud, Emmy Awards, Finnish language, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Frank Darabont, Free Law Project, Future US, GNU Free Documentation License, Golden Globe Awards, Goodreads, Graphical user interface, Hoang v. Amazon.com, Inc., Hungarian language, Internet censorship in China, Jeff Bezos, Letterboxd, LGBT, List, List of online databases, Los Angeles Times, Lycos Europe, Marsha J. Pechman, Mirror site, Online advertising, ... Expand index (47 more) »

  2. British companies established in 1990
  3. British film websites
  4. Entertainment companies established in 1990
  5. Internet properties established in 1990
  6. Social cataloging applications

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Actuarial science

Actuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in insurance, pension, finance, investment and other industries and professions.

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Alexa Internet

Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco. IMDb and Alexa Internet are Amazon (company) acquisitions.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. IMDb and Amazon (company) are Webby Award winners.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Barnaby Dorfman

Barnaby Dorfman is an American businessman and currently the Chief Technology Officer of Go1.com.

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Bayesian statistics

Bayesian statistics is a theory in the field of statistics based on the Bayesian interpretation of probability, where probability expresses a degree of belief in an event.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. IMDb and BBC News are Webby Award winners.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. IMDb and box Office Mojo are Amazon (company) acquisitions, American film websites and online film databases.

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Breach of contract

Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol Post

The Bristol Post is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales.

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Castlemead

Castlemead is the second tallest high-rise building in Bristol, England, after Castle Park View topped out in 2020.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. IMDb and CNET are Webby Award winners.

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Col Needham

Colin Needham (born 26 January 1967) is a British computer engineer who is known as the founder and CEO of IMDb.

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Command-line interface

A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Danish language

Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Deadnaming

Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender or non-binary person by a name they used prior to transitioning, such as their birth name.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. IMDb and discogs are social cataloging applications.

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Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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Frank Darabont

Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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Free Law Project

Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) Oakland-based nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora.

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Future US

Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets.

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GNU Free Documentation License

The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Goodreads

Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. IMDb and Goodreads are Amazon (company) acquisitions and social cataloging applications.

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Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

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Hoang v. Amazon.com, Inc.

Hoang v. Amazon.com, Inc.

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Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.

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Internet censorship in China

China censors both the publishing and viewing of online material.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (and Robinson (2010), p. 7.; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

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Letterboxd

Letterboxd is a New Zealand online social cataloging service founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011. IMDb and Letterboxd are online film databases and social cataloging applications.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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List

A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes.

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List of online databases

This is a list of online databases accessible via the Internet.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lycos Europe

Lycos Europe was a pan-European network of websites, offering services including communication tools, online communities, web search, e-commerce, web hosting, homepage building and Internet access.

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Marsha J. Pechman

Marsha J. Pechman (born February 6, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

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Mirror site

Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.

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Online advertising

Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising that uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users.

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Online database

An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage (such as a CD).

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OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.

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Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Python (programming language)

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.

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Rating scale

A rating scale is a set of categories designed to obtain information about a quantitative or a qualitative attribute. IMDb and rating scale are Recommender systems.

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Résumé

A résumé, sometimes spelled resume (or alternatively resumé), is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments.

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Rob Hartill

Robert Hartill (born 30 January 1969 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a computer programmer and web designer best known for his work on the Internet Movie Database website and the Apache web server and is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes are online film databases, Recommender systems and television websites.

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SAG-AFTRA

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

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Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican, American and French actress and film producer.

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Shell script

A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Sprinklr

Sprinklr is an American software company based in New York City that develops a SaaS customer experience management (CXM) platform.

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SQL

Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced S-Q-L; historically "sequel") is a domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Techdirt

Techdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution.

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TechRadar

TechRadar is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy is a legal blog co-founded in 2002 by law professor Eugene Volokh, covering legal and political issues from an ideological orientation it describes as "generally libertarian, conservative, centrist, or some mixture of these." It is one of the most widely read and cited legal blogs in the United States.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an American media company covering the business of entertainment and media.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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TNW (website)

TNW (The Next Web) is a website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe.

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Transgender

A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Troll (slang)

In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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URL

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

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Usenet

Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vice

A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered morally wrong in the associated society.

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Vince Chhabria

Vince Girdhari Chhabria (born November 27, 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and formerly a deputy city attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.

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Web API

A web API is an application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser.

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Web scraping

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Withoutabox

Withoutabox was a website founded in January 2000 by David Straus, Joe Neulight and Charles Neulight which allowed independent filmmakers to self-distribute their films. IMDb and Withoutabox are Amazon (company) acquisitions and American film websites.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. IMDb and YouTube are Recommender systems.

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See also

British companies established in 1990

British film websites

Entertainment companies established in 1990

Internet properties established in 1990

Social cataloging applications

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb

Also known as @IMDb, IDMb, IMBD, IMD b, IMDB (website), IMDB Pro, IMDB.com, IMDB.com, Inc., IMDb (identifier), IMDb Internet Movie Database, IMDb Top 250, Imdb 250, International Movie Database, Internet Movie Data Base, Internet Movie DataBase, Internet Movie Databse, M.imdb.com, THE IMDB, The Internet Movie Database, The Internet Movie Database Top 250, Top 250 movies on IMDb, Www.imdb.com.

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