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2010 Search+

Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

8 reconstructed results for Tumblr in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. The animated GIF returns - Reaction GIFs, GIF sets and Tumblr's looping economy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gif-culture

    Animated GIFs, a 1990s relic, came roaring back in 2010 thanks to Tumblr's reblog culture: reaction GIFs from TV shows, GIF sets of scenes, and glitter graphics...

    CultureEditorialReconstructed result

  2. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010

    In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...

    CultureEditorialReconstructed result

  3. Advice Animals - Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf and friends

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/advice-animals

    Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  4. Me Gusta - The face for enjoying something you should not

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/me-gusta

    Me Gusta, a bulging-eyed face drawn by Matt Oswald in March 2010, was the rage comic reaction for guilty pleasure. It spread through Reddit and Tumblr through the year...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  5. Y U NO Guy - "Y U NO" + any complaint, in broken English

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/y-u-no

    Y U NO Guy, a rage face taken from a manga panel, became a 2010 image macro for exasperated questions: "Facebook, Y U NO let me dislike?" It was one of the first rage...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  6. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  7. Deal With It - Sunglasses drop, argument over

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deal-with-it

    The "Deal With It" GIF, a pair of pixel sunglasses sliding onto a face, originated on the Something Awful forums in 2010 and became the standard way to end an argument...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

  8. Haters Gonna Hate - A strutting cartoon and a shrug at criticism

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/haters-gonna-hate

    "Haters gonna hate", paired with an image of someone strutting obliviously (often a cartoon character or a walking pigeon), spread across Tumblr and Reddit in 2010 as...

    CultureSupportedReconstructed result

The search engines of 2010

  • Verified

    Google

    Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

    Google in 2010 was a white page with a colourful logo, one box and ten blue links. The year began with Google refusing to keep censoring results in...

    searchgooglegoogle instant

  • Supported

    Ask.com

    The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

    Ask.com, once Ask Jeeves with its butler mascot, still had a few percent of US searches in 2010, largely through toolbars bundled with downloads. In...

    searchask.comask jeeves

  • Supported

    Baidu

    China's search engine, after Google walked away

    Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong....

    searchbaiduchina

  • Supported

    Bing

    Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

    Bing had launched in June 2009 with a photographic homepage and a marketing budget that called it a "decision engine" rather than a search engine. In...

    searchbingmicrosoft

  • Supported

    Wolfram|Alpha

    A computational knowledge engine

    Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it...

    searchwolfram alphamaths

  • Supported

    Yahoo!

    The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

    Yahoo! was still one of the most-visited sites on Earth in 2010, thanks to Yahoo Mail, the news-heavy portal homepage, Yahoo Answers, Flickr and...

    portalyahooemail

Why these are not real Google results

Historical search result pages cannot be reproduced faithfully: they depended on the day, the location, the logged-in account and an index that no longer exists. Instead of pretending, this page searches the exhibit's own records and presents them in the visual language of a 2010 results page. Each result links to an entry with its sources and confidence label.

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