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

Section 4
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
9 reconstructed results for ask jeeves in the 2010 exhibit.
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...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/formspring
Formspring launched in late 2009 and spread through high schools in 2010: a page where anyone could ask you questions, often anonymously, and you answered in public. It...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/browser-toolbars
Toolbars were the plague of the 2010 browser: bundled with Java updates, antivirus software and free downloads, they stacked below the address bar until the page was a...
TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-lurk-moar
lurk moar: Read more before posting; the 4chan reply to a newcomer's naive question. Example: "lurk moar before you ask what a rage comic is"
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theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tumblr
Tumblr grew explosively in 2010. Its dashboard, a dark blue page of posts from the blogs you followed, made reblogging and animated GIFs the currency of a new creative...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/reddit
In 2010 Reddit was a spartan, text-heavy site owned by Condé Nast, far smaller than Digg at the start of the year. Digg's disastrous August redesign sent a wave of users...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/omegle
Omegle launched in 2009 as an anonymous text chat with strangers and added video chat in March 2010 as Chatroulette's popularity surged. Its tagline, "Talk to...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/quora
Quora opened to the public in June 2010, founded by two former Facebook engineers. Its promise was answers from people with first-hand knowledge, and in 2010 Silicon...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/stack-overflow
Stack Overflow, launched in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, had become the default place programmers looked for answers by 2010. The reputation system,...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.