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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.

15 reconstructed results for addicting games in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. The Impossible Quiz - The trick-question Flash game every classroom knew

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-impossible-quiz

    Splapp-me-do's The Impossible Quiz, from 2007, was still one of the most-played Flash games on school computers in 2010: 110 trick questions, three lives, and skips. It...

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  2. Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The horror game that made YouTube scream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/amnesia-dark-descent

    Frictional Games' Amnesia, released in September 2010, gave players no weapons, only a lantern and a sanity meter. Its terror made it the perfect subject for webcam...

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  3. Bejeweled Blitz - One-minute matches and a weekly friends leaderboard

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bejeweled-blitz

    PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz turned the match-three classic into 60-second rounds with a leaderboard of your Facebook friends that reset every week. In 2010 it was one of...

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  4. Robot Unicorn Attack - Always, I wanna be with you: the Flash game of 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/robot-unicorn-attack

    Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack, released in February 2010, was the Flash game of the year: a rainbow-trailing robot unicorn dashing through a pastel dreamscape to...

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  5. Plants vs. Zombies - Tower defence with peashooters, on every platform in 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/plants-vs-zombies

    PopCap's Plants vs. Zombies, released for PC in 2009, arrived on the iPhone in February 2010 (selling 300,000 copies in nine days), then the iPad, Xbox 360 and DS. Its...

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  6. Civilization V - Hexes, one unit per tile, and one more turn

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/civilization-v

    Civilization V, released in September 2010, moved the strategy series to hexagonal tiles and one-unit-per-tile combat, and became a Steam fixture for the next decade. It...

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  7. Red Dead Redemption - Rockstar's western, the game of the year for many

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/red-dead-redemption

    Red Dead Redemption, released on 18 May 2010, put Rockstar's open-world design in the dying American West. It won many game-of-the-year awards, its Undead Nightmare...

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  8. Mafia Wars - Text-based crime, energy bars and a lawsuit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mafia-wars

    Mafia Wars was Zynga's text-heavy crime game where you did jobs, recruited friends into your mafia and waited for energy to refill. It had millions of daily players on...

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  9. Pet Society - Playfish's cute pets, bought by EA

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pet-society

    Pet Society, from Playfish, let you dress up a pet, decorate its house and visit friends' pets, and was one of the largest Facebook games of 2010. Electronic Arts had...

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  10. Cut the Rope - Feed Om Nom: a million sales in ten days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cut-the-rope

    ZeptoLab's Cut the Rope launched in October 2010 and sold a million copies in ten days, one of the fastest-selling iPhone games to that point. Its physics puzzles and...

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  11. Steam in 2010 - Steam comes to the Mac, and sales that emptied wallets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steam-2010

    Valve's Steam store launched on the Mac in May 2010 with Portal free for two weeks, and its holiday sales, with daily deals at 75 percent off, became a ritual. Steam had...

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  12. Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Nintendo's best-reviewed game of the decade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/super-mario-galaxy-2

    Super Mario Galaxy 2, released in May 2010 for the Wii, added Yoshi and even more inventive gravity-bending levels to its predecessor's formula. It was one of the...

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  13. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/limbo

    Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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  14. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver - Johto remade, with a Pokéwalker pedometer in the box

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pokemon-heartgold-soulsilver

    The DS remakes of Pokémon Gold and Silver reached North America and Europe in March 2010, bundled with the Pokéwalker pedometer. They sold more than 12 million copies...

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  15. Just Dance 2 - The Wii party game that outsold the critics' favourites

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/just-dance-2

    Just Dance 2, released in October 2010, was one of the best-selling games of the year despite lukewarm reviews, proving the Wii's audience wanted to dance in the living...

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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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