2010 Search

15 reconstructed results for google instant in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Google - Ten blue links, and results that appeared as you typed

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google

   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 China, added a...

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2. AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) - Buddy lists and away messages, fading fast

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aim

   AIM had defined instant messaging in America for a decade, with its running-man icon, buddy lists, door-opening sounds and passive-aggressive away messages. By 2010 it...

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3. Google Docs - Word processing in the browser, shared with a link

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-docs

   Google Docs let students write group projects in the same document at the same time, which felt like magic in 2010. In January it began storing any file type, and in...

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4. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

   Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

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5. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

   Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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6. Netflix - Red envelopes, and a streaming-only plan

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/netflix

   In 2010 Netflix was still mostly a DVD-by-mail company, but streaming was taking over: Watch Instantly worked on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, Roku and, from August, the...

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7. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

   Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

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8. Orkut - Google's social network that Brazil and India loved

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/orkut

   Orkut, Google's 2004 social network, was largely ignored in the United States but was the biggest social network in Brazil and hugely popular in India through 2010. Its...

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9. Gmail - Conversations, labels, and 7 GB of storage

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gmail

   Gmail had left beta in 2009 and by 2010 was the email of choice for anyone under 35, with conversation threading, labels instead of folders and more than 7 GB of free...

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10. Baidu - China's search engine, after Google walked away

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/baidu

    Baidu was already the dominant search engine in China when Google stopped censoring google.cn in March 2010 and redirected users to Hong Kong. Baidu's share of Chinese...

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11. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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12. 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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13. Grooveshark - Any song, on demand, free, and legally doomed

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/grooveshark

    Grooveshark let anyone stream almost any song on demand, free, from a slick Flash interface, because users uploaded the tracks themselves. It was hugely popular in 2010...

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14. Spotify - The European streaming service Americans could not get

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/spotify

    In 2010 Spotify was available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands, often by invitation, with a free ad-supported tier and a premium...

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15. AOL - Dial-up subscribers, AIM, and a content empire in the making

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/aol

    AOL was spun off from Time Warner in December 2009 and spent 2010 remaking itself as a content company: it bought TechCrunch in September, ran Engadget, and still...

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