Verified
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
Section 4
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
7 reconstructed results for apps in the 2010 exhibit.
Android Market - 100,000 apps, and the Angry Birds free-for-all
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-market-2010
Android Market, the store that became Google Play in 2012, passed 100,000 apps in October 2010. Its green robot storefront was messier than Apple's and full of free,...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
The App Store in 2010 - "There's an app for that": 300,000 apps and counting
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/app-store-2010
Apple's App Store passed 300,000 apps in late 2010 and had served billions of downloads since opening in 2008; the American Dialect Society named "app" its word of the...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Microsoft Office 2010 - The Ribbon everywhere, and Office Web Apps in the browser
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/office-2010
Office 2010, released to consumers on 15 June 2010, put the Ribbon interface in every application, added the Backstage file view, and launched free Office Web Apps that...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
Android 2.2 Froyo - Flash on a phone, tethering, and a huge speed boost
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/android-froyo
Android 2.2, announced at Google I/O in May 2010, made Android phones two to five times faster with a JIT compiler, added Wi-Fi hotspot tethering, Chrome-to-Phone, apps...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010
Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Adobe Creative Suite 5 - Content-Aware Fill, and Flash CS5's blocked iPhone exporter
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/adobe-cs5
Adobe CS5, released in April 2010, brought Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill (the demo video went viral), 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac, and Dreamweaver's CSS improvements....
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
The mobile web in 2010 - m.facebook.com, WAP pages, and a web that did not fit
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-web-2010
In 2010 the mobile web meant separate m.sites with stripped-down layouts (m.facebook.com, m.youtube.com), WAP pages on feature phones, and pinch-zooming full desktop...
TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result
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.
