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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.
10 reconstructed results for youtube in the 2010 exhibit.
The YouTube stars of 2010 - Ray William Johnson, Smosh, nigahiga, Fred, Shane Dawson
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube-creators-2010
In 2010 the most-subscribed YouTube channels belonged to comedians who edited themselves in their bedrooms: Ray William Johnson's =3 viral-video reviews, Smosh's...
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Justin Bieber: Baby (feat. Ludacris) - The most-viewed video on YouTube, and the most disliked
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baby-justin-bieber
Released in February 2010, the video for Baby became the most-viewed video on YouTube in July 2010, overtaking Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and eventually the most-disliked...
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Vevo - Official music videos come to YouTube
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vevo
Vevo, a joint venture of Universal and Sony launched in December 2009, put official music videos on YouTube with premium ads. In 2010 its channels for Bieber, Gaga,...
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The Annoying Orange - "Hey Apple!": the web series that became a TV show
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/annoying-orange
Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, a talking orange with a human mouth and eyes, was one of the biggest channels on YouTube in 2010, with episodes routinely passing...
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Lady Gaga: Bad Romance - The video that ruled YouTube in early 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bad-romance
Bad Romance, released in late 2009, dominated 2010: it was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Baby overtook it in July, won Grammys in 2011, and its "Rah rah,...
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Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song
Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...
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Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - "I'm on a horse."
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/old-spice-man-your-man-could-smell-like
Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice advert, starring Isaiah Mustafa in a single unbroken shot, was posted to YouTube in February 2010 and became the year's most-shared...
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OK Go: This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) - One take, one warehouse, one enormous machine
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass
OK Go, already famous for their treadmill video, released a single-take video in March 2010 in which a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine plays out over four minutes....
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Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/double-rainbow
Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...
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Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha
"Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...
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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....
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...
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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.
