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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.
6 reconstructed results for twitter in the 2010 exhibit.
#FollowFriday / #FF - The weekly Twitter ritual of recommending accounts to follow.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-follow-friday
#FollowFriday / #FF: The weekly Twitter ritual of recommending accounts to follow. Example: "#FF @biz @ev @jack"
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trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending
trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"
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smh - Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-smh
smh: Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010. Example: "AT&T killed unlimited data. smh"
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hashtag (#)
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-hashtag
hashtag (#): A word prefixed with # to tag a tweet; proposed by Chris Messina in 2007, linked by Twitter in 2009, everywhere by 2010. Example: "#FollowFriday"
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tweet / RT
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tweet
tweet / RT: A Twitter post, and RT for retweet: repeating someone's tweet, by hand ("RT @user") or, from late 2009, with the button. Example: "RT @kimmel: my favorite...
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refudiate
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-refudiate
refudiate: Sarah Palin's accidental blend of refute and repudiate, tweeted in July 2010 and named New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. Example: "Peaceful...
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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...
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...
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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.
