14. A computing system suitable for automatically obtaining relevant search results from a search engine for a user who is using an electronic device, though a keyboard is not used to manually input search terms, comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory that stores computer readable instructions, which when executed by the computing system cause the computing system to: facilitate communication between a first electronic device, which is a movie player or a music player, with one or more other devices in a local home network; obtain a media name from one of the devices in the local home network that helps identify a particular song, music group, album or movie that has been played on the first electronic device wherein the media name is at least one selected from the group consisting of a movie title, a song title, a music album name and a music group name; perform two linked searches, a first search and a linked second search, to obtain additional information for the user that relates to media played on the first electronic device, wherein the two linked searches do not involve search terms that are directly inputted by the user; automatically perform the first search wherein the first search is of the Internet and uses one or more search terms that include at least a part of the media name; identify a plurality of web pages using the first search; receive web page text contained in the plurality of web pages identified in the first search; automatically analyze the web page text to determine that some of the web page text provides additional contextual information relating to the media name; automatically select at least some of the web page text to use as one or more search terms in the second search; automatically perform the second search on an external network using the selected web page text as one or more search terms in the second search second search query, which is based on the first and second sets of search terms; receive a search result in response to the second search; and display information to the user based on the search result from the second search.
14. A computing system suitable for automatically obtaining relevant search results from a search engine for a user who is using an electronic device, though a keyboard is not used to manually input search terms, comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory that stores computer readable instructions, which when executed by the computing system cause the computing system to: facilitate communication between a first electronic device, which is a movie player or a music player, with one or more other devices in a local home network; obtain a media name from one of the devices in the local home network that helps identify a particular song, music group, album or movie that has been played on the first electronic device wherein the media name is at least one selected from the group consisting of a movie title, a song title, a music album name and a music group name; perform two linked searches, a first search and a linked second search, to obtain additional information for the user that relates to media played on the first electronic device, wherein the two linked searches do not involve search terms that are directly inputted by the user; automatically perform the first search wherein the first search is of the Internet and uses one or more search terms that include at least a part of the media name; identify a plurality of web pages using the first search; receive web page text contained in the plurality of web pages identified in the first search; automatically analyze the web page text to determine that some of the web page text provides additional contextual information relating to the media name; automatically select at least some of the web page text to use as one or more search terms in the second search; automatically perform the second search on an external network using the selected web page text as one or more search terms in the second search second search query, which is based on the first and second sets of search terms; receive a search result in response to the second search; and display information to the user based on the search result from the second search. 16. A computing system as recited in claim 14 wherein the computing system is a second consumer electronic device that is coupled with the first consumer electronic device.