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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.

27 reconstructed results for blog in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for blog

  1. Blogger - Blogspot blogs with orange Bs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogger

    Blogger, Google-owned since 2003, hosted millions of free blogspot.com blogs in 2010, from personal diaries to recipe blogs to the MP3 blogs of the music-download era. A...

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  2. The blogosphere - Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, RSS and the Technorati top 100

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blogosphere-2010

    In 2010 blogs were still the intellectual centre of the web: personal blogs on Blogger and WordPress, mommy blogs, MP3 blogs, political blogs, and professional blog...

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  3. reblog

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-reblog

    reblog: To repost someone's Tumblr post to your own blog, with or without commentary; Tumblr's core verb. Example: "this got 40,000 notes after one reblog"

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  4. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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  5. Gizmodo and Gawker Media - The blog that bought a lost iPhone prototype

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gizmodo

    Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who...

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  6. I Can Has Cheezburger and the Cheezburger Network - LOLcats as a media company

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/cheezburger-network

    I Can Has Cheezburger turned LOLcats into a business, and by 2010 the Cheezburger Network ran dozens of sites, including FAIL Blog and Memebase, publishing...

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  7. FAIL and WIN - Epic fail, FAIL Blog, and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail

    "FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...

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  8. 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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  9. 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...

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  10. "X all the Y!" (Clean all the things) - From Hyperbole and a Half to every to-do list

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/x-all-the-y

    In June 2010, Allie Brosh's blog Hyperbole and a Half published "This is Why I'll Never be an Adult", with a crudely drawn figure shouting "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" The...

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  11. LiveJournal - Communities, moods and friends-only posts

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/livejournal

    LiveJournal was the blogging community that fandoms, writers and teenagers had used since 1999. Owned by Russian company SUP since 2007, it was in slow decline in the...

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  12. viral

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-viral

    viral: Spreading rapidly by sharing; "going viral" was the ambition of every 2010 video, ad and blog post. Example: "the Old Spice ad went viral overnight"

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  13. TechCrunch - Start-up news, bought by AOL

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/techcrunch

    TechCrunch was the loudest voice covering Silicon Valley start-ups in 2010, from Michael Arrington's scoops to the Disrupt conference. AOL announced it was buying the...

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  14. 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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  15. 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...

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  16. 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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  17. YouTube - Two billion views a day, 360p by default

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/youtube

    YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday in May 2010 by announcing more than two billion views a day. Users uploaded 24 hours of video every minute in March and 35 hours a...

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  18. Lost: The End - The series finale the internet argued about for weeks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lost-finale

    Lost ended on 23 May 2010 with a two-and-a-half-hour finale watched by about 13.5 million Americans and dissected on forums, Twitter and recap blogs for weeks. The...

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  19. Markus "Notch" Persson - The one-man studio behind Minecraft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson

    Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...

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  20. SoundCloud - Waveforms and timed comments

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/soundcloud

    SoundCloud, founded in Berlin in 2007, was becoming the place for producers and DJs to share tracks in 2010. Its orange waveform player, with comments pinned to moments...

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  21. Google Reader - Every blog you followed, in one inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-reader

    Google Reader was the RSS reader of choice for anyone who followed many blogs, with keyboard shortcuts, folders, and a Share button that made it a small social network...

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  22. 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...

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  23. 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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  24. RapidShare - Wait 60 seconds, then download

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/rapidshare

    RapidShare was the file locker of the late 2000s: paste a link, wait through a countdown, download one file at a time unless you paid for premium. In 2010 it was still...

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  25. Steve Jobs - The iPad, the iPhone 4, and the war on Flash

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/steve-jobs

    Steve Jobs had his last great year of product launches in 2010: the iPad in January, the "Thoughts on Flash" letter in April, the iPhone 4 in June, the Antennagate press...

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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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