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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.

13 reconstructed results for art in the 2010 exhibit.

  1. DeviantArt - The largest online art community

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/deviantart

    DeviantArt was ten years old in 2010 and the home of fan art, digital painting, photography and Photoshop brushes, with well over ten million members. Its green pages,...

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  2. Cracked.com - 6 Reasons the Listicle Ruled 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cracked

    Cracked.com, the former humour magazine, was at its peak in 2010 with numbered list articles about history, science and pop culture that were funnier and better...

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  3. Wikipedia - Three and a half million articles and a new default skin

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikipedia

    Wikipedia was nine years old in 2010 and by far the largest reference work ever assembled, with the English edition approaching 3.5 million articles. In May the site...

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  4. Bandcamp - Name your price

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bandcamp

    Bandcamp gave independent artists a simple page to stream and sell their music, including "name your price" downloads in any format from MP3 to FLAC. By 2010 it was...

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  5. CollegeHumor - Sketch comedy before YouTube channels

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/collegehumor

    CollegeHumor produced original comedy videos, such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and hosted user-submitted pictures and articles. In 2010 it was one of the few...

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  6. Habbo Hotel - Pixel rooms and furni

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/habbo

    Habbo Hotel, the Finnish virtual hotel of isometric pixel rooms, was where teenagers hung out and traded "furni" in 2010. Its Shockwave client, guest rooms and games...

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  7. iTunes Store - Ten billion songs sold, and the Beatles arrive

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/itunes-store

    The iTunes Store was the centre of legal digital music in 2010: it passed ten billion songs sold in February, iTunes 10 arrived in September with the ill-fated Ping...

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  8. Vimeo - Where filmmakers uploaded in HD

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vimeo

    Vimeo was the arty alternative to YouTube in 2010: cleaner pages, HD playback, no ads in the player, and a community of designers, animators and indie filmmakers. Its...

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  9. Pandora - Type a band, get a radio station

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/pandora

    Pandora's Music Genome Project turned any song or artist into a personalised radio station with thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. Free listening was capped at 40 hours...

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  10. Last.fm - Scrobble everything you play

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/last-fm

    Last.fm recorded ("scrobbled") every track you played in iTunes, Winamp or your iPod and turned it into charts, recommendations and neighbours with similar taste. In...

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  11. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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  12. Rdio - Skype's founders try music streaming in America

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rdio

    Rdio, from Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, launched in the US and Canada in August 2010 as a subscription streaming service with a social feed of what...

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  13. iGoogle - Your personalised homepage of gadgets

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/igoogle

    iGoogle let you build a homepage of widgets: Gmail, weather, news, a to-do list and thousands of gadgets, with themes that changed with the time of day. In 2010 it was...

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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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