Section 4

2010 Search

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

8 reconstructed results for email in the 2010 exhibit.

Timeline results for email

Facebook announces the new Messages with @facebook.com email - 15 November 2010
Google launches Google Buzz inside Gmail - 9 February 2010

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
Windows Live Hotmail - The world's biggest webmail, redesigned
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hotmail
Hotmail, by then branded Windows Live Hotmail, had hundreds of millions of accounts in 2010, many of them the first email address people ever created. A mid-2010 update...
WebsiteSupportedReconstructed result
Facebook - The social network at 500 million users
theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/facebook
In 2010 Facebook was six years old, had just overtaken Google as the most-visited site in the United States on some weekly measures, and passed 500 million users in...
WebsiteVerifiedReconstructed result
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
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
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

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.