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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...
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Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
4 reconstructed results for cut the rope in the 2010 exhibit.
Anonymous and Operation Payback - Guy Fawkes masks, LOIC, and the WikiLeaks payment war
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/anonymous-2010
Anonymous, the loose collective born on 4chan, spent 2010 attacking anti-piracy groups and then, in December, the companies that cut off WikiLeaks: PayPal, Visa and...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
Sad Keanu - A paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich, Photoshopped everywhere
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sad-keanu
A May 2010 paparazzi photo of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a New York bench became Sad Keanu in June, when Reddit and 4chan users cut him out and pasted him...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
Rage comics - FFFFFUUUU, Trollface, Forever Alone, Me Gusta, Y U NO
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rage-comics
Rage comics were crude, four-panel MS Paint strips about everyday frustrations, drawn with a shared cast of stick-figure faces. Born on 4chan in 2008, they peaked in...
CultureSupportedReconstructed result
Forum culture - vBulletin, phpBB, signatures, post counts and the ban hammer
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/forums-2010
Before Reddit and Discord ate them, forums were where the internet talked in 2010: vBulletin and phpBB boards for every hobby, game and band, with avatars, signature...
CultureEditorialReconstructed result
The search engines of 2010
Google
- 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...
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- 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...
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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.
