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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.

18 reconstructed results for phone in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. Windows Phone 7 launch phones - Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and the Metro tiles

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7-devices

    Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 in Europe on 21 October 2010 and in the US on 8 November, with phones such as the Samsung Focus, HTC HD7 and LG Quantum. The Metro...

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  2. Feature phones - What most of the world actually carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/feature-phones

    Smartphones were still a minority in 2010: roughly one in five phones sold worldwide that year was a smartphone, according to Gartner. Most people carried feature...

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  3. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-4

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

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  4. iPhone 3GS - The 2009 iPhone that most iPhone owners still carried

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-3gs

    For the first half of 2010 the iPhone 3GS was Apple's flagship, and after June it stayed on sale at $99 as the entry model. Its plastic curved back, 3.5-inch 480-by-320...

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  5. Nexus S - Gingerbread and the first NFC Android phone

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-s

    The Samsung-made Nexus S launched on 16 December 2010 as the first phone with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an NFC chip, years before contactless payments mattered. Its...

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  6. Nexus One - Google's own Android phone, sold online

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nexus-one

    Google announced the HTC-built Nexus One on 5 January 2010 and sold it unlocked from its own web store for $529, an experiment in bypassing carriers that ended within...

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  7. HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g

    Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...

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  8. Nokia N8 - A 12-megapixel camera and the last hope for Symbian

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-n8

    The Nokia N8, released in October 2010, had the best camera on any phone, a 12-megapixel sensor with a Carl Zeiss lens and HDMI output. It ran Symbian^3, which reviewers...

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  9. Nokia 5230 - The cheap touchscreen Nokia that sold in the tens of millions

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/nokia-5230

    Nokia was still the world's biggest phone maker in 2010, and phones like the 5230, a low-cost touchscreen Symbian handset, were why. It sold enormously across Europe,...

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  10. HTC Desire - The Nexus One with Sense, and Europe's Android favourite

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-desire

    The HTC Desire was essentially a Nexus One with HTC's Sense interface, an optical trackpad and physical buttons. Released in Europe in spring 2010, it became one of the...

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  11. BlackBerry Bold 9700 - The keyboard phone of the business world and the school corridor

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-bold-9700

    The Bold 9700 was the definitive 2010 BlackBerry: a compact QWERTY keyboard, an optical trackpad, the red blinking notification light, and BlackBerry Messenger....

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  12. Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin

    Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...

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  13. iPod touch (4th generation) - An iPhone 4 without the phone, and the teenager's first iOS device

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ipod-touch-4

    The September 2010 iPod touch borrowed the iPhone 4's Retina display, A4 chip and FaceTime camera, starting at $229. For millions of teenagers it was the first App Store...

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  14. Samsung Galaxy S - The start of the Galaxy dynasty

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-s

    Samsung's first Galaxy S launched in June 2010 with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a fast Hummingbird processor, sold in the US under four carrier names (Vibrant,...

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  15. Samsung Galaxy Tab - The first serious Android tablet

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-tab

    The 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, released in November 2010, was the first major Android answer to the iPad. It ran the phone version of Android (2.2 Froyo) stretched to a...

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  16. Motorola Droid X - Verizon's big-screen Android, sold with a robot voice

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/droid-x

    Following the 2009 Motorola Droid that put Android on the map in the US, the Droid X arrived on Verizon in July 2010 with a 4.3-inch screen, an 8-megapixel camera and...

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  17. BlackBerry Torch 9800 - A touchscreen slider running BlackBerry 6

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-torch

    Launched in August 2010 on AT&T, the Torch combined a slide-out keyboard with a touchscreen and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system with a WebKit browser. It was RIM's...

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  18. Palm Pre Plus and webOS - Cards, gestures and a company bought by HP

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/palm-pre-plus

    Palm's webOS phones, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, arrived on Verizon in January 2010 with card-based multitasking that iOS and Android later copied. Palm's sales were...

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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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