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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.

15 reconstructed results for Entertainment in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for Entertainment

  1. Call of Duty: Black Ops - $360 million in 24 hours, the biggest launch in entertainment history

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/call-of-duty-black-ops

    Call of Duty: Black Ops, released on 9 November 2010, sold about 5.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, worth $360 million, then the biggest...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  2. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Twelve years later, the sequel arrives

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/starcraft-2

    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released on 27 July 2010 and sold three million copies in its first month. It relaunched competitive real-time strategy, Battle.net...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  3. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - 12 million subscribers and Azeroth remade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wow-cataclysm

    World of Warcraft reached 12 million subscribers in October 2010, its all-time peak, and its third expansion, Cataclysm, sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours when it...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  4. MySpace - The fading giant with glitter graphics and a Top 8

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/myspace

    By 2010 MySpace had lost its crown to Facebook and was shedding users and staff under News Corp, which had bought it in 2005. In October it relaunched as a "social...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  5. Vevo - Official music videos come to YouTube

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/vevo

    Vevo, a joint venture of Universal and Sony launched in December 2009, put official music videos on YouTube with premium ads. In 2010 its channels for Bieber, Gaga,...

    MediaSupportedReconstructed result

  6. Halo: Reach - $200 million on day one

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/halo-reach

    Bungie's last Halo game launched on 14 September 2010 and made $200 million in its first 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch of the year until Black Ops. Its...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  7. God of War III - Kratos versus Olympus, in PS3 spectacle

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/god-of-war-3

    God of War III, released in March 2010, was the PlayStation 3's graphical showpiece of the year, with Kratos climbing titans the size of mountains. It sold more than a...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  8. eBaum's World - Flash videos, viral clips and content wars

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ebaums-world

    eBaum's World was a 2000s viral-media site that collected funny videos, Flash animations and images, often without credit, which made it notorious among creators. By...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  9. Fallout: New Vegas - Obsidian's beloved, buggy Mojave

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fallout-new-vegas

    Fallout: New Vegas, released in October 2010, was Obsidian's cult follow-up to Fallout 3: deeper factions and choices, and famously unstable at launch. It sold millions...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  10. Heavy Rain - "Press X to Jason": the interactive drama

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/heavy-rain

    Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, released in February 2010, was a PS3 thriller told through quick-time events and branching choices. Its ambition drew praise, its awkward...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  11. Gran Turismo 5 - Five years in the making, finally released in November

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gran-turismo-5

    Gran Turismo 5, delayed for years, finally shipped on 24 November 2010 with more than 1,000 cars and a mixed reception for its uneven car models and long install. It...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed result

  12. Alan Wake - A writer, a flashlight, and the dark

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/alan-wake

    Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same...

    GameVerifiedReconstructed 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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