Section 4

2010 Search

Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.

12 reconstructed results for auto-tune in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for auto-tune

Double Rainbow goes viral - 3 July 2010
The Bed Intruder Song is posted - 31 July 2010
Google launches Google Buzz inside Gmail - 9 February 2010
Digg v4 launches and users revolt - 25 August 2010
Gmail launches Priority Inbox and calls from Gmail - 30 August 2010

Bed Intruder Song - "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife": the most-watched video of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bed-intruder-song
Antoine Dodson's furious, funny interview on a Huntsville, Alabama news broadcast in July 2010 was Auto-Tuned into a song by the Gregory Brothers days later. YouTube...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
WordPress.com - Hosted WordPress, and the software running the blogosphere
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wordpress-com
WordPress powered a large share of the blogs and news sites of 2010, and WordPress.com offered hosted blogs with themes and stats for free. WordPress 3.0, released in...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Double Rainbow - "What does it mean?"
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/double-rainbow
Paul Vasquez filmed a double rainbow over Yosemite in January 2010 and wept with joy on camera. The clip sat unnoticed until Jimmy Kimmel tweeted it in July, after which...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
Kesha: Tik Tok - Billboard's number-one song of 2010
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/tik-tok-kesha
"Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy" opened the biggest song of 2010. Tik Tok topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks and finished as Billboard's year-end...
MediaVerifiedReconstructed result
Digg - Social news, and the redesign that broke it
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/digg
Digg let users "digg" stories onto a front page that could crash a small website with traffic. In August 2010, Digg version 4 removed favourite features, let publishers...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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
Tumblr - Reblogs, GIFs and the dark blue dashboard
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

The search engines of 2010

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.