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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.

11 reconstructed results for arcade fire in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for arcade fire

  1. Albums of 2010: Recovery, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Suburbs - Eminem's comeback, Kanye's masterpiece, and Arcade Fire's Grammy

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/albums-of-2010

    Eminem's Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 in the United States. Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, released in November after his weekly G.O.O.D....

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  2. Limbo - Black-and-white, silent, and the summer's indie darling

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/limbo

    Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won...

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  3. Firefox 3.6 - The alternative browser with a thousand extensions

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firefox-3-6

    Firefox 3.6, released on 21 January 2010, was the browser of choice for people who cared, with about 30 percent of worldwide usage. It added Personas skins, plugin-crash...

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  4. 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

  5. imho / imo - In my (humble) opinion; the standard forum hedge before a strong opinion.

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-imho

    imho / imo: In my (humble) opinion; the standard forum hedge before a strong opinion. Example: "imho Firefox is still better than Chrome"

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  6. Addicting Games - Nickelodeon's Flash arcade

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/addicting-games

    Addicting Games, owned by Nickelodeon's parent Viacom, was one of the most-visited casual game sites in 2010, with categories like Shooting, Puzzle and Sports and a...

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  7. Fruit Ninja - Swipe to slice, avoid the bombs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fruit-ninja

    Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, released in April 2010, made the touchscreen itself the game: swipe to slice flying fruit, avoid bombs. It was one of the top-selling iPhone...

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  8. Super Meat Boy - From Newgrounds Flash game to indie hit

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/super-meat-boy

    Super Meat Boy, released in October 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade and in November on Steam, grew out of a 2008 Newgrounds Flash game. Its brutal platforming and a million...

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  9. Webcomics: xkcd, The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half - The comics that lived in Google Reader

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcomics-2010

    xkcd's stick-figure science jokes, The Oatmeal's ranting infographics and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half were among the most-shared things on the 2010 web, spreading...

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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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