2010 Search

15 reconstructed results for search in the 2010 exhibit.

1. 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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2. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bing

   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 2010 it took over...

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3. Ask.com - The former Ask Jeeves gives up on search

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ask-com

   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 November 2010 it...

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4. 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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5. Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yahoo

   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 Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...

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6. Facebook - The social network at 500 million users

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook

   In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...

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7. Chatroulette - Random strangers, webcam to webcam

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/chatroulette

   Chatroulette paired you with a random stranger over webcam and let either of you hit Next. Built by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy in late 2009, it exploded in February...

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8. LimeWire - The P2P client a court shut down in October 2010

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/limewire

   LimeWire was the file-sharing program of a generation: a green-and-grey Gnutella client full of misnamed MP3s, fake files and viruses. On 26 October 2010 a federal court...

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9. WikiLeaks - Collateral Murder, the war logs and Cablegate

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wikileaks

   WikiLeaks defined the news in 2010. It published the Collateral Murder helicopter video in April, the Afghan War Diary in July, the Iraq War Logs in October, and began...

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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Pirate Bay - The torrent tracker that would not die

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/the-pirate-bay

    The Pirate Bay was the world's best-known BitTorrent index in 2010, a year after its founders were convicted in Sweden. Its pirate-ship logo, comment threads and "legal...

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13. Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha

    Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it returned calculated...

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14. The Huffington Post - The blog that became a newspaper

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/huffington-post

    The Huffington Post mixed aggregated news, celebrity bloggers and huge headlines into the busiest news blog of 2010, with comment sections in the thousands. Its traffic...

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15. Know Your Meme - The internet's meme encyclopedia

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/know-your-meme

    Know Your Meme documented the origin and spread of memes with the seriousness of an encyclopedia and the deadpan of a science show. Started by the Rocketboom video blog...

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