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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.

7 reconstructed results for open source in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - Linux for people, with a new purple theme

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ubuntu-10-04

    Ubuntu 10.04, released in April 2010, was the Linux distribution most likely to be found on a netbook or a curious student's dual-boot laptop. It introduced a...

    TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result

  2. Symbian - The world's most-used smartphone OS, and nobody in Silicon Valley cared

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/symbian

    Symbian, the operating system on Nokia's smartphones, still had the largest share of smartphone sales worldwide in 2010, about 37.6 percent according to Gartner, ahead...

    TechnologySupportedReconstructed result

  3. Google Font API (Google Fonts) - Free web fonts for everyone, launched at Google I/O

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-font-api

    Google launched its Font API and directory in May 2010 with 18 open-source typefaces, including Lobster, Droid Sans, Yanone Kaffeesatz and Inconsolata. Alongside Typekit...

    TechnologySupportedReconstructed result

  4. 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

  5. Bitcoin in 2010 - Ten thousand coins for two pizzas

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bitcoin-2010

    Bitcoin was a year old and worth almost nothing in 2010. On 22 May, Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, the first recorded purchase with the currency. The Mt....

    TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result

  6. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

    Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

    TechnologyVerifiedReconstructed result

  7. 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

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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