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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.
8 reconstructed results for feature phone in the 2010 exhibit.
Opera Mini - The browser that made feature-phone internet bearable
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-mini
Opera Mini compressed pages on Opera's servers before sending them to the phone, which made it the most-used mobile browser in the world in 2010, especially on feature...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Texting in 2010 - Trillions of SMS messages, unlimited plans, and T9 thumbs
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sms-texting
Text messaging peaked in the early 2010s: Americans sent well over a trillion texts a year, teenagers sent thousands a month, and unlimited texting was the must-have...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Windows Phone 7 - Metro live tiles and a fresh start for Microsoft
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-phone-7
Windows Phone 7 replaced the stylus-era Windows Mobile with a flat, typographic interface of live tiles and hubs, launching in October and November 2010. Reviewers...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed 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...
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - The $29 upgrade with no new features, and the Mac App Store on the way
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mac-os-x-snow-leopard
Snow Leopard, released in August 2009 for $29, was the Mac OS of 2010: brushed-metal was gone, the Dock was a 3D shelf, Exposé and Spaces managed windows, and Safari 5...
TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result
HTML5 - Native video, canvas and the end of plugins, still a draft
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/html5
HTML5 was a working draft in 2010, but the fight over Flash made it a household word. YouTube launched an HTML5 player beta in January, Apple published a showcase in...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Opera 10.5 and Opera 11 - Small share, big ideas: Turbo, Speed Dial and tab stacking
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/opera-10-5
Opera had only around 2 percent of desktop browser usage in 2010 but kept inventing features others copied: Speed Dial, mouse gestures, Opera Turbo compression, and, in...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed 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
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...
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.
