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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.
9 reconstructed results for iPhone in the 2010 exhibit.
Doodle Jump - Tilt to jump, on graph paper
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/doodle-jump
Doodle Jump, released in 2009 by two brothers, was among the most-downloaded paid iPhone games of 2010, with its hand-drawn Doodler bouncing up endless platforms using...
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Angry Birds - The 99-cent game that defined the smartphone era
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/angry-birds
Released for iPhone in December 2009, Angry Birds became the best-selling paid app of 2010, arrived free on Android in October, and passed 50 million downloads across...
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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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Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja
Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...
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Words with Friends - Scrabble by push notification
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/words-with-friends
Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in...
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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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Canabalt - One button, endless rooftops
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/canabalt
Canabalt, made by Adam Saltsman in 2009 for a Flash game jam, invented the one-button endless runner: a man in a suit sprinting across rooftops as a city collapses. In...
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FarmVille - The Facebook game your aunt sent you requests for
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/farmville
FarmVille, launched by Zynga in June 2009, was the biggest game on Facebook in 2010 with tens of millions of daily players and more than 80 million monthly users at its...
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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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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...
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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.
