Verified
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
2010 Search
Ten blue links, green URLs, and results as you type. Reconstructed from the exhibit's records, never faked from history.
14 reconstructed results for data plans in the 2010 exhibit.
Timeline results for data plans
- AT&T ends unlimited data plans for new smartphone customers - 2 June 2010
- Google admits Street View cars collected Wi-Fi data - 14 May 2010
- Facebook launches the Open Graph and the Like button for the web - 21 April 2010
- Tumblr goes down for about a day - 5 December 2010
Mobile data in 2010: 3G, caps, and the first 4G - A megabit or two on a good day, and the end of unlimited
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/mobile-data-2010
Most smartphones in 2010 used 3G networks that delivered a megabit or two in practice, enough for email, Facebook and a slow YouTube video. AT&T ended unlimited data for...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Wolfram|Alpha - A computational knowledge engine
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/wolfram-alpha
Launched in May 2009, Wolfram|Alpha answered questions by computing rather than searching: type a maths problem, a date, or two cities and it returned calculated...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
IMDb - The movie database, 20 years old
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/imdb
IMDb celebrated its 20th anniversary in October 2010. Owned by Amazon, it was the site everyone opened to settle who was in what, with its yellow-and-black branding,...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
smh - Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010.
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-smh
smh: Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010. Example: "AT&T killed unlimited data. smh"
SlangSupportedReconstructed result
Texting in 2010 - Trillions of SMS messages, unlimited plans, and T9 thumbs
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sms-texting
Text messaging peaked in the early 2010s: Americans sent well over a trillion texts a year, teenagers sent thousands a month, and unlimited texting was the must-have...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Yahoo! - The portal: mail, news, Answers and Flickr
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/yahoo
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 Yahoo Finance. Under CEO...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) - PINs, the D and the R, and free unlimited messaging
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/blackberry-messenger
BBM let BlackBerry owners message each other free over the data plan, with delivered and read receipts, group chats and PIN-swapping as a social ritual. In 2010 it was a...
TechnologySupportedReconstructed result
Foursquare - Check in, become the mayor
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/foursquare
Foursquare made 2010 the year of the check-in. Users broadcast their location to friends, collected badges, and fought to become the "mayor" of their coffee shop. The...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
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
HTC Evo 4G - The first 4G phone in America, on Sprint's WiMAX
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/htc-evo-4g
Released on 4 June 2010, the HTC Evo 4G was the first US phone sold as 4G, using Sprint's WiMAX network, which existed in only a few dozen cities. Its 4.3-inch screen...
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The search engines of 2010
Google
- 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.
