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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.

18 reconstructed results for call of duty in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for call of duty

  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. Xbox 360 S - The slim, glossy 360 with built-in Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/xbox-360-s

    Announced at E3 in June 2010 and in stores days later, the redesigned Xbox 360 S was slimmer, quieter, had built-in Wi-Fi and a 250 GB drive, and included a port for...

    ProductVerifiedReconstructed result

  3. Gmail - Conversations, labels, and 7 GB of storage

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/gmail

    Gmail had left beta in 2009 and by 2010 was the email of choice for anyone under 35, with conversation threading, labels instead of folders and more than 7 GB of free...

    WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result

  4. Skype - Free calls over the internet, video included

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/skype

    Skype was how families called abroad and how long-distance couples saw each other in 2010. It reported more than 500 million registered users, offered free...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  5. Webcams - Grainy 640-by-480 video for Skype, Chatroulette and vlogs

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/webcams-2010

    Most 2010 laptops had a built-in low-resolution webcam, and desktops used a Logitech clip-on, which made Skype calls, MSN video chat, Chatroulette and YouTube vlogging...

    TechnologyEditorialReconstructed result

  6. Google Talk and Gmail Chat - Chat inside your inbox

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/google-talk

    Google Talk, and the Gmail Chat box built into the Gmail sidebar, let people message and video chat without installing anything. In 2010 it was quietly replacing AIM for...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  7. iPhone 4 - Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/iphone-4

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera...

    ProductVerifiedReconstructed result

  8. Ringtones and ringback tones - The $2.99 ringtone business in its last big years

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/ringtones-2010

    Ringtones were still a multi-billion-dollar business in 2010, sold by carriers and services like Myxer and Jamster, and Myxer was one of Google's fastest-rising searches...

    TechnologySupportedReconstructed result

  9. Bing - Microsoft's one-year-old "decision engine"

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bing

    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 2010 it took over...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  10. Windows Live Messenger (MSN) - Nudges, winks and display names full of lyrics

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/windows-live-messenger

    Still called MSN by almost everyone, Windows Live Messenger was the dominant instant messenger outside the United States in 2010, with hundreds of millions of users. Its...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  11. Flickr - Five billion photos, and the iPhone as top camera

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/flickr

    Flickr passed five billion uploaded photos in September 2010 and was the serious photographer's social network: albums called sets, Creative Commons licences, groups for...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  12. Groupon - One deal a day, and a $6 billion offer refused

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/groupon

    Groupon emailed one local deal a day, half-price yoga classes or restaurant vouchers, that only activated if enough people bought in. It was called the fastest-growing...

    WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result

  13. 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

  14. Samsung Galaxy Tab - The first serious Android tablet

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/samsung-galaxy-tab

    The 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, released in November 2010, was the first major Android answer to the iPad. It ran the phone version of Android (2.2 Froyo) stretched to a...

    ProductSupportedReconstructed result

  15. Amazon Kindle (3rd generation) - $139 e-reader, the one that made Kindle mainstream

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/kindle-3

    The third-generation Kindle, later called the Kindle Keyboard, shipped in August 2010 with a sharper E Ink screen, a smaller body and a $139 Wi-Fi-only price. Amazon...

    ProductSupportedReconstructed result

  16. Apple TV (2nd generation) - A $99 black puck for renting shows and streaming Netflix

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/apple-tv-2010

    The second-generation Apple TV, announced on 1 September 2010, shrank to a tiny black box with no storage, rented TV episodes for 99 cents and films from $3.99, streamed...

    ProductVerifiedReconstructed 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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